Three Outlaw Samurai
One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay
Directed by Hideo Gosha
Produced by Samurai Productions, Shochiku
A tense, beautifully composed samurai drama about honor, loyalty, and sacrifice, where three outcasts fight against systemic corruption and face inevitable tragedy.
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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