Zen and Sword (Blu-ray) standard edition

A swordsman, writer and artist who lived from circa 1583 until 1645, Miyamoto Musashi is a near-mythic figure in Japanese history and an icon of Japanese popular culture. In the early 1960s, Toei launched into an entire series focused on the legendary samurai - a five-part saga adapted from the works of Eiji Yoshikawa and completed under the direction of Tomu Uchida between 1961 and 1965.

MIYAMOTO MUSASHI charts the origins of the eponymous swordsman (Kinnosuke Nakamura) following his participation in the Battle of Sekigahara, with subsequent films tracing his path through rivalry and conflict to the climactic MIYAMOTO MUSASHI V: DUEL AT GANRYU ISLAND.

A greatly accomplished samurai saga featuring two titans of Japanese cinema in Kinnosuke Nakamura and Ken Takakura, Toei's Miyamoto Musashi films deserve to stand with the Zatoichi series as one of the great samurai sagas of the 1960s.