Three outlaw samurai = Sanbiki no samurai

Author

Hideo Gosha

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN, WSQ)

Languages

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira.

Publication Information

Criterion Collection,

Physical Description

1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In this origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series of the same name, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.

Special feature: trailer.