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Plot: Toshirô Mifune is confidence supreme and humility incarnate as the mature samurai master Musashi Miyamoto in the final film of Inagaki's sprawling trilogy. Now a legendary swordsman whose latest quest...( read more read more... ) is to save an isolated village from rampaging brigands (shades of Seven Samurai), he remains haunted by the memory of Otsu (Kaoru Yachigusa). Meanwhile the ruthless and increasingly jealous Kojiro Sasaki (Koji Tsuruta) plots his battle royal with Musashi to prove who is the finest fencer in Japan. Inagaki weaves the web of subplots into a series of grand confrontations, among them the most exciting battles of the trilogy: Musashi's skirmish with the army of cutthroats while the village erupts in a fiery inferno around him, and the sunset duel between Musashi and Kojiro on an isolated beach, the two warriors taking on mythic dimensions silhouetted against the sun setting over the surf. Inagaki's delicate use of color throughout the series becomes most pronounced in this final sequence, where the glow of orange and red adds dramatic flourish to the twilight battle. Inagaki's reserved, restrained style and Mifune's melancholy performance--his granite face and stocky stance the very essence of somber wisdom and sad assurance--bring a gravity and seriousness to the drama that ultimately illuminates the personal cost of Musashi's supreme skill as his story ends on an elegiac but hopeful note. --Sean Axmaker

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Recent Reviews

  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 7, 2008
    great, it ends here. when you end finish it you'll be plenty satisfied of the trilogy. wachowsky brother this is how you do a trilogy!
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    January 22, 2008
    Classic ending - a must see series with a must see ending. The Kojiro showdown on the beach is beautiful.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 19, 2007
    an incredible finale to a great trilogy, the duel at the end is a classic scene built with anticipation and excitment. mifune was great as always and this film makes the trilogy feel less like a simple love story and more like an epic of human development. wonderful film.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 26, 2007
    Third in a trilogy. Really liked this one. Brought the story to fruition and cleared up some of my confusion from earlier on in the series.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 31, 2007
    SO FU@#$%&*+ AMAZING! This trilogy is one of my favorite movies of all time. Mifune is a genius throughout all three and his entire career!
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 24, 2007
    The conclusion to the Samurai saga deals with a subplot left unresolved in the last film, rather than dealing with the friendship issue that started off the trilogy. This film is basically just a big showdown that gets stretched out for an hour and half, with all the female drama from the last 2 films thrown in the mix. I'm too impatient when it comes to "build up", but the end fight is pretty kool in terms of style and scenery; and I guess there's a lesson at the end too...
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 7, 2006
    For something that is supposed to be the end of a magnificent trilogy, Samurai III doesn't really cut it. While cutting out portions of the original story was necessary, too much was changed in terms of character development (e.g. Akemi's end). However, the final duel scene at dawn is incredibly shot, which makes up for the rather weak buildup. Overall, it's not as good as its prequels, but it's worth a shot watching, if only to finish off what you started watching.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    November 23, 2006
    the stunning closure to a fantastic film series, the duel on the beach has become one of the great battle sequences of our time with mifune perfecting the final shades of his character, simply marvelous

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Details

  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Hiroshi Inagaki
  • Genres: Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Drama
  • Released: January 1, 1956
  • DVD Released: July 21, 1998

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