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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Throne of Blood (1957)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.