Zen and Sword - The Miyamoto Musashui Saga At Toei Limited Edition Blu ray

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Zen & Sword: The Miyamoto Musashi Saga at Toei

 (1961-1965)

LIMITED EDITION THREE-DISC BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Limited edition of 2,000 copies
• Limited edition hardbound slipcase featuring new art by John Dunn
• 1080p HD presentations on Blu-ray from new 4K restorations by Toei
• Optional English subtitles, newly revised for this release
• New audio commentary on Miyamoto Musashi with Japanese cinema expert Jonathan Wroot
• New audio commentary on Miyamoto Musashi II: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights with critic and Japanese cinema specialist Jasper Sharp
• Live by the Sword – new video essay on Miyamoto Musashi in history and popular culture by Jonathan Clements, author of A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shōgun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
• A Legendary Swordsman – new appreciation of Toei’s Miyamoto Musashi saga by film critic Tony Rayns
• On Otsu and Other Women – new interview with Japanese cinema scholar Jennifer Coates on female representation in Toei’s Miyamoto Musashi saga
• Package design by John Dunn
• Trailers
• Limited edition 100-page collector’s book featuring translated writing by Miyamoto Musashi, notes on each film in Toei’s Musashi series by Japanese cinema expert Joe Hickinbottom and a new essay on the films’ stars by Jennifer Coates, author of Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968