Miyamoto Musashi
110 mins
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
Tokubei Hanazawa
Tanzaemon Aoki
Bandō Mitsugorō VIII
Terumasa Ikeda
Seiji Miyaguchi
Bamboo craftsman Kisuke
Shojiro Ogasawara
Shichiho temple monk
Shirō Osaki
Hon'iden's relative
Kinnosuke Takamatsu
Village man
Noboru Umezawa
Village man
Hanzō Kataoka
Village man
Mitsuo Asano
Yamabushi
Shinichi Hamada
Villager
Mitsukazu Kawamura
Border Inspector
Takeshi Kurobe
A ghost
Hachirō Minamoto
Villager
Kin'ya Suzuki
Border Inspector
Kazuko Ōura
Villager
Naoyuki Suzuki
Writer
Masashige Narusawa
Writer
Hiroo Nozu
Sound
Kimiharu Tsujino
Production Design
Masanobu Hayashi
Makeup Artist
Ryôsaku Nemoto
Production Manager
Gô Mikami
Costume Design
Makoto Tsuboi
Director of Photography
Takatoshi Suzuki
Art Direction
Ayako Sakurai
Hairstylist
Mineo Kamiwa
Set Designer
Shintarō Miyamoto
Editor
Hiroshi Watada
Gaffer
Takaya Ogawa
Production Design
Toshio Miyagawa
Set Decoration
Hiroshi Ookawa
Executive Producer