Samurai Trilogy 1: Musashi Miyamoto

In my neverending quest to try and culture myself on good film, I've started watching what is known as the "Samurai Trilogy" here in the states. These are three films by Hiroshi Inagaki that were made in the mid 1950's about a man wanting to become a samurai warrior set a few hundred years ago. I really enjoy watching older films sometimes because I can definitely see the transition from the stage and theater to the silver screen. Scenes are shot differently, actors do and say certain things, sets and positioning are a little different, etc. This is the era where there used to be an intermission in the middle of the movie. Can you imagine that happening today? Not likely. Didn't even happen during the Lord of the Ring movies and those were pretty long. I can definitely see most people not getting into a movie like this because it's not full of the action and lacks many characteristics of a modern film. I'd say it's worth sticking through though. Defintely a good conversation piece if nothing else.