# Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

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**Original title**: *宮本武蔵*
**Runtime**: 148 min
**Genres**: Drama, Action
**Directed by**: Tai Katō
**Written by**: Yoshitarō Nomura, Yamashita Kiyomoto
**Starring**: Hideki Takahashi, Jirō Tamiya, Mitsuko Baisho, Keiko Matsuzaka, Chishū Ryū, Toshiyuki Hosokawa

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You train under a master only to watch your school crumble when war shifts sides. Then you wander alone for years refining the blade you’ll wield against Kojiro.

Miyamoto Musashi’s path looks like many period films yet sidesteps familiar tropes by folding stillness into each strike.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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