Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

Drama Action Adventure

Toshirō Mifune

(Musashi Miyamoto a.k.a. Takezo)

Koji Tsuruta

(Kojiro Sasaki)

Kaoru Yachigusa

(Otsu)

Mariko Okada

(Akemi)

Michiyo Kogure

(Lady Yoshino)

Akihiko Hirata

(Seijuro Yoshioka)

Mitsuko Mito

(Oko)

Kurôemon Onoe

(Takuan)

Sachio Sakai

(Matahachi Honiden)

Yū Fujiki

(Denshichiro Yoshioka)

Machiko Kitagawa

(Kogure)

Eiko Miyoshi

(Osugi)

Eijirō Tōno

(Baiken Shishido)

Kenjin Iida

(Jotaro)

Kō Mihashi

(Honami Koetsu)

Yoshibumi Tajima

(Yoshioka samurai)

Keiko Kondo

((uncredited))

Hisako Takihana

((uncredited))

Ren Yamamoto

((uncredited))

Ryū Kuze

((uncredited))

Torahiko Hamada

((uncredited))

Yoshio Inaba

((uncredited))

Fumindo Matsuo

((uncredited))

Minoru Itō

((uncredited))

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

((uncredited))

Ren Imaizumi

((uncredited))

Rinsaku Ogata

((uncredited))

Kenzō Tabu

((uncredited))

Kokuten Kōdō

(Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited))

Daisuke Katō

(Toji Gion)