Hiroshi Inagaki’s acclaimed Samurai Trilogy is based on the novel that has been called Japan’s Gone with the Wind. This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) - In the first part, Musashi Miyamoto, the hero’s dreams of military glory end in betrayal, defeat, and a fugitive lifestyle. But he is saved by a woman who loves him and a cunning priest who guides him to the samurai path.



Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Island (1955) - In the second, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, the itinerant Musashi is set upon by eighty samurai disciples—orchestrated by the villainous Kojiro—while the women who love him watch helplessly.



Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1955) - In the final chapter, Duel at Ganryu Island, Musashi must decide between two women as he prepares to battle for supremacy in a climactic confrontation with his lifelong nemesis.