Film

Three Outlaw Samurai 1964

Directed by Hideo Gosha

  • Action, Drama
  • 93 min

One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.

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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.

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  • classical in formformally daring
  • earnestironic
  • character-ledplot-driven
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