This was the perfect ending to an amazing trilogy. Capturing the loneliness of meeting your best opponent you’ll ever face, while also showcasing the satisfaction of dying knowing you met your match. It’s something I don’t understand, but such an interesting thing to see play out. I wasn’t super connected with really any of the love interest, but I do wish we got to see more of the little kid. All in all a beautiful trilogy with a beautiful ending.

This was the perfect ending to an amazing trilogy. Capturing the loneliness of meeting your best opponent you’ll ever face, while also showcasing the satisfaction of dying knowing you met your match. It’s something I don’t understand, but such an interesting thing to see play out. I wasn’t super connected with really any of the love interest, but I do wish we got to see more of the little kid. All in all a beautiful trilogy with a beautiful ending.

A near perfect conclusion to one of my new favorite trilogies of all time. Everything I love about the first two is dialed up, the visuals are truly some of the most beautiful I’ll ever see, Toshirô Mifune and a majority of the cast give their best performances of the trilogy, and the story itself left me more than satisfied despite having some tiny issues. I need to start with the way this looked because even with the first two being as gorgeous as they were this one really stands out to me. I’ll never forget these skies and the way they were so full of color in every shot, and with the brilliant lighting, camera movement, and sets, I’m confident in saying this is the best looking entry of them all which is really saying a lot. The action also looked great, I might say the second entry still has this beat in that regard, but man, that final battle scene is absolutely one of my new favorites in cinematic history. In terms of the story I’m able to admit a lot is going on which might’ve not been explored to the level it should’ve been. For example the Seven Samurai-esque plotline of the bandits raiding the town could’ve benefitted from more focus, I wasn’t a big fan of the direction Akemi’s story went, and part of me definitely wishes we got a more concrete conclusion and understanding of Takezo and Otsu’s future together. Outside of my complaint with Akemi these are smaller nitpicks of a story I ultimately loved almost everything about, if any character here deserved a happy ending the most it was Akemi but I can also understand the choice of her fate being used to symbolize the unfairness of life and death. And with the ending my heart obviously wanted to see Takezo and Otsu together after three movies of romantic plots but I can also appreciate the ambiguity of ending it just after the duel with both the audience and Takezo himself not knowing what the future holds in store, it’s symbolic of Takezo’s struggles throughout the trilogy and I can really appreciate that even if I could’ve used five more minutes with them together at the end. That’s about all I have to say, I can guarantee I’ll revisit this trilogy someday and will most likely love it even more than I do now. It’s an amazing samurai story with beautiful themes of love, discipline, and honor, I have to put a spoiler tag on this but if you’re somehow reading this and haven’t seen this trilogy I couldn’t recommend it enough.

“The prayers of those who wish me victory and talismans are useless to me. Therefore, do not pray for me. Affections and attractions disturb my inner tranquility. I want to fight alone.”

A near perfect conclusion to one of my new favorite trilogies of all time. Everything I love about the first two is dialed up, the visuals are truly some of the most beautiful I’ll ever see, Toshirô Mifune and a majority of the cast give their best performances of the trilogy, and the story itself left me more than satisfied despite having some tiny issues. I need to start with the way this looked because even with the first two being as gorgeous as they were this one really stands out to me. I’ll never forget these skies and the way they were so full of color in every shot, and with the brilliant lighting, camera movement, and sets, I’m confident in saying this is the best looking entry of them all which is really saying a lot. The action also looked great, I might say the second entry still has this beat in that regard, but man, that final battle scene is absolutely one of my new favorites in cinematic history. In terms of the story I’m able to admit a lot is going on which might’ve not been explored to the level it should’ve been. For example the Seven Samurai-esque plotline of the bandits raiding the town could’ve benefitted from more focus, I wasn’t a big fan of the direction Akemi’s story went, and part of me definitely wishes we got a more concrete conclusion and understanding of Takezo and Otsu’s future together. Outside of my complaint with Akemi these are smaller nitpicks of a story I ultimately loved almost everything about, if any character here deserved a happy ending the most it was Akemi but I can also understand the choice of her fate being used to symbolize the unfairness of life and death. And with the ending my heart obviously wanted to see Takezo and Otsu together after three movies of romantic plots but I can also appreciate the ambiguity of ending it just after the duel with both the audience and Takezo himself not knowing what the future holds in store, it’s symbolic of Takezo’s struggles throughout the trilogy and I can really appreciate that even if I could’ve used five more minutes with them together at the end. That’s about all I have to say, I can guarantee I’ll revisit this trilogy someday and will most likely love it even more than I do now. It’s an amazing samurai story with beautiful themes of love, discipline, and honor, I have to put a spoiler tag on this but if you’re somehow reading this and haven’t seen this trilogy I couldn’t recommend it enough.

“The prayers of those who wish me victory and talismans are useless to me. Therefore, do not pray for me. Affections and attractions disturb my inner tranquility. I want to fight alone.”

"One can only smile contentedly after 10 years of pilgrimage."

this might not be the best trilogy i've ever watched, but oh my god it is definitely one of my favourite trilogies ever, i loved this movie so much. i'm being more strict with my ratings this year but oh my god im trying so hard not to give this a 5, i believe that this trilogy is the perfect way to experience a samurai movie. again, excluding any kurosawa movie because his samurai movies are just genius and unbeatable. i really liked the story in this, unlike the last movie this had a really easy to follow story with a very simple structure to it whereas the last one had a very layered story with a weird romance subplot which this movie actually concluded really well in my opinion. i still can't get over how underrated this trilogy is, i only ever seen 1 screenshot of this before i watched it and it was from the duel between miyamoto and sasaki in this movie of them in the beach with the sunrise in the background, which also happens to be the main reason i even watched this and im so fucking glad i did watch this. toshiro mifune, again is just extremely talented. this is probably his best performance, over the course of these 3 movies he has shown that he can play a great character and be able to keep up with the progress that his character is going through and the way mifune changes EVERYTHING about his acting to go along with miyamotos growth is so impressive, like i remember in the first movie he was always jumpy and aggressive, now in this he's so calm and cool it's genuienly amazing how he does it. his body language and facial expressions changed along with miyamotos character growth. musashi miyamotos character arc throughout these movies as a whole has been very interesting, and well executed in my opinion. people say the books were better, but most books are better than the adaptation anyway. the cinematography is obviously incredible, every shot is so fascinating. whether it's the start with that rlly beautiful rainbow/waterfall shot or the ending duel with the sunrise backdrop, this movie and even this trilogy as a whole is just some of the most stunning and impressive shot movies in cinema. that ending is so poignant and beautiful, and i swear all this 3 movie buildup for that was so worth it, i'd watch this over and over if i could.

great movie

"One can only smile contentedly after 10 years of pilgrimage."

this might not be the best trilogy i've ever watched, but oh my god it is definitely one of my favourite trilogies ever, i loved this movie so much. i'm being more strict with my ratings this year but oh my god im trying so hard not to give this a 5, i believe that this trilogy is the perfect way to experience a samurai movie. again, excluding any kurosawa movie because his samurai movies are just genius and unbeatable. i really liked the story in this, unlike the last movie this had a really easy to follow story with a very simple structure to it whereas the last one had a very layered story with a weird romance subplot which this movie actually concluded really well in my opinion. i still can't get over how underrated this trilogy is, i only ever seen 1 screenshot of this before i watched it and it was from the duel between miyamoto and sasaki in this movie of them in the beach with the sunrise in the background, which also happens to be the main reason i even watched this and im so fucking glad i did watch this. toshiro mifune, again is just extremely talented. this is probably his best performance, over the course of these 3 movies he has shown that he can play a great character and be able to keep up with the progress that his character is going through and the way mifune changes EVERYTHING about his acting to go along with miyamotos growth is so impressive, like i remember in the first movie he was always jumpy and aggressive, now in this he's so calm and cool it's genuienly amazing how he does it. his body language and facial expressions changed along with miyamotos character growth. musashi miyamotos character arc throughout these movies as a whole has been very interesting, and well executed in my opinion. people say the books were better, but most books are better than the adaptation anyway. the cinematography is obviously incredible, every shot is so fascinating. whether it's the start with that rlly beautiful rainbow/waterfall shot or the ending duel with the sunrise backdrop, this movie and even this trilogy as a whole is just some of the most stunning and impressive shot movies in cinema. that ending is so poignant and beautiful, and i swear all this 3 movie buildup for that was so worth it, i'd watch this over and over if i could.

great movie

Samurai III di hiroshi inagaki del 56' è l'ultimo capitolo della saga samurai,questo ultimo atto riesce a mantenere sia dal lato tecnico che narrativo tutte le cose buone del secondo film.Riesce anche a regalare momenti memorabili considerati ormai classici del cinema giapponese di questo tipo, come la scena finale sull'isola dove si svolge la battaglia tra kojiro e il protagonista ma anche dell'addio di musashi alla via della katana.Analizzando bene l'intera saga si può notare non solo un cambiamento nel protagonista ma anche nel ritmo che si fa sempre più lento e calmo, che serve a simboleggiare il cambiamento avvenuto nel protagonista che da irruento e impulsivo passa ad essere sempre più calmo e pacato.Per concludere questo ultimo capitolo riesce a mantenere tutti gli aspetti positivi del secondo film ma anche a creare momenti iconici che sono stati d'ispirazione al cinema giapponese. Un grande classico che non sente per niente gli anni sulle spalle grazie anche a un grande lavoro di restauro.

Samurai III di hiroshi inagaki del 56' è l'ultimo capitolo della saga samurai,questo ultimo atto riesce a mantenere sia dal lato tecnico che narrativo tutte le cose buone del secondo film.Riesce anche a regalare momenti memorabili considerati ormai classici del cinema giapponese di questo tipo, come la scena finale sull'isola dove si svolge la battaglia tra kojiro e il protagonista ma anche dell'addio di musashi alla via della katana.Analizzando bene l'intera saga si può notare non solo un cambiamento nel protagonista ma anche nel ritmo che si fa sempre più lento e calmo, che serve a simboleggiare il cambiamento avvenuto nel protagonista che da irruento e impulsivo passa ad essere sempre più calmo e pacato.Per concludere questo ultimo capitolo riesce a mantenere tutti gli aspetti positivi del secondo film ma anche a creare momenti iconici che sono stati d'ispirazione al cinema giapponese. Un grande classico che non sente per niente gli anni sulle spalle grazie anche a un grande lavoro di restauro.

For en trilogi egentlig. Liker hvor ryddig og enkel den er. Filmene har perfekt lengde, og de ser flotte ut. Denne ser kanskje flottest ut.

Samurai kampen i slutten av denne er nok en av de beste jeg har sett på film. Wow.

For en trilogi egentlig. Liker hvor ryddig og enkel den er. Filmene har perfekt lengde, og de ser flotte ut. Denne ser kanskje flottest ut.

Samurai kampen i slutten av denne er nok en av de beste jeg har sett på film. Wow.