Tonight I watched the first DVD of the Samurai Trilogy box set that I purchased this past summer, Miyamoto Musashi.
This is one of only two or three movies I have ever purchased. The only reason I will purchase a movie is if the libraries and video rental stores do not have it and I really want to see it.
I thought it was great and I am excited to watch the second and third part to this series.
Toshiro Mifune, one of my favorite actors, plays an orphan who becomes a samurai. Like other great samurai movies, you see the distinction between the non-samurai and the samurai. Not only in skill, but in courage, strength and honor. Mifune portrays this perfectly as the orphan grows into and becomes the samurai.
This is another movie for men. I don't think most women will be able to understand it in the same way.