Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Original title

三匹の侍

Directed by

Hideo Gosha

Genre

drama film, samurai cinema

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

16

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 114 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wandering ronin stumbles into a conflict between peasants and a corrupt magistrate. He joins two other samurai hired to kill the peasants after they kidnap the magistrate's daughter.

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What happens

Three Outlaw Samurai (Japanese: 三匹の侍, Hepburn: Sanbiki no Samurai) is a 1964 Japanese chambara film directed and co-written by Hideo Gosha in his feature-length debut. The film is an origin-story offshoot of Gosha's 1963 Japanese television series of the same name, with the same lead actors, Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, and Mikijirō Hira. The film involves a wandering ronin who finds himself involved with two other samurai who are hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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