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.
Genres:
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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