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Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijoji no Ketto
JAPAN · 1964

Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijoji no Ketto

Tomu Uchida
martial arts dueling rivalry and honor mental illness impossible odds fate and destiny
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Synopsis

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.

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