
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
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Hideki Takahashi as Musashi Miyamoto

Jirō Tamiya as Kojiro Sasaki

Mitsuko Baisho as Akemi

Keiko Matsuzaka as Otsu

Chishū Ryū as Takuan

Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Seijuro Yoshioka

Makoto Satō as

Junko Toda as Osugi

Toshie Kimura as Oko

Kenjirō Ishiyama as Mibu Genzaemon

Yoshi Katō as Sado Nagaoka

Takeshi Katō as Iwama Kakubei

Takanobu Hozumi as Gion Toji

Rokkō Toura as Shishido Baiken

Masahiko Tanimura as Sasuke

Akira Shioji as Togiya Kosuke

Akitake Kōno as Kimura Sukekuro

Masakane Yonekura as Narrator (voice)

Yōichi Numata as

Seiji Endō as

Fuyukichi Maki as

Ushio Akashi as

Shosei Muto as

Hitoshi Ōmae as

Tomiko Ishii as

Masahiro Yoshihara as

Jun Kashima as

Ryûsuke Kita as

Sōnosuke Oda as

Takuya Shiba as

Yoshizô Takahata as

Taku Kido as

Shuichi Oki as

Rintarô Kaga as

Kenji Sonoda as

Terumitsu Kawashima as

Tadayuki Okamoto as

Hisakage Maehara as

Masaki Tatsuya as

Kenji Kimura as

Yoshiro Taki as

Kanjiro Osugi as

Koji Nakata as

Takigawa Goro as

Hara Yasuji as

Kentarō Imai as

Ofuna Taro as

Yusuke Minamoto as

Junji Tsubaki as

Akashi Goro as

Yôji Doki as

Nobuo Takagi as

Tamura Masakatsu as

Keiji Tsuchida as

Kazuhiro Takasugi as

Nao Matsubara as

Toshio Ohkubo as

Kazuko Motohashi as

Yoshino Tani as

Ryōko Mizuki as

Kiyo Murakami as

Kenkichi Hamahata as Hosokawa Tadatoshi

Akiko Nishina as Omitsu

Ichirō Arishima as Kobayashi Tarozaemon

Frankie Sakai as Honiden Matahachi

Keijirō Morozumi as
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