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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (Japanese: 宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi Kanketsuhen: Kettō Ganryūjima) is a 1956 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshirō Mifune. Shot in Eastmancolor, it is the third and final film of Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.
View of Ganryū-jima island Ganryū-jima ( 巌流島 , formerly Funa-jima 船島 [ 1 ] ) is an island in Japan located between Honshū and Kyūshū , and accessible via ferry from Shimonoseki Harbor ( 下関港 ) .
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto: 1955: Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple: 1956: Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island: 1957: A Fantastic Tale of Naruto: Yagyu Secret Scrolls: 1961: Yojimbo: 1962: Sanjuro: The Tale of Zatoichi: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues: Harakiri: Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki: Shinobi no Mono [1] 1963: New Tale of ...
Samurai I won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.. In a review almost 60 years after the release of the trilogy, the late academic and film critic Stephen Prince noted "the absence of gore" in the films: "Severed limbs and spurting arteries hadn't yet arrived as a movie convention, and the fights in The Samurai Trilogy are relatively chaste, not showing the carnage that such ...
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto; Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple; Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island; Samurai Trilogy; Seven Samurai; Shin Heike Monogatari (film) Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate; Sword for Hire
He is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed filmmakers in the history of Japanese cinema, having directed several jidaigeki epics such as the 1954 Academy Award-winning film Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, and its two sequels (1955's Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) and 1956's Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island).
FLASHBACKS: Twenty years ago, the ‘Mission: Impossible’ frontman did a lot more than just shoot people and jump off tall buildings. Today, ‘The Last Samurai’ marks one of the actor’s ...
The "jidaigeki" film genre corresponds to the "period drama" of other nations. "Chambara" corresponds to sword fighting films. Though Samurai films make up the bulk of these films, there are many others which also fit this group.