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Three Outlaw Samurai - The Criterion Collection
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This first film by the legendary HIDEO GOSHA (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. In it, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin (TETSURO TAMBA) becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai (ISAMU NAGATO and MIKIJIRO HIRA), hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate. With remarkable storytelling economy and thrilling action scenes, this is an expertly mounted tale of revenge and loyalty.
Special Features:
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
- The Criterion Collection
- 93 mins approx
- Hideo Gosha
- 15
- Tetsuro Tamba
- Isamu Nagato
- Mikijiro Hira
English
- 1964
- Japanese
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Three Outlaw Samurai - The Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray
£21.99
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This first film by the legendary HIDEO GOSHA (Sword of the Beast) is among the most canonized chambara (sword-fighting) films. An origin-story offshoot of a Japanese television series phenomenon of the same name, Three Outlaw Samurai is a classic in its own right. In it, a wandering, seen-it-all ronin (TETSURO TAMBA) becomes entangled in the dangerous business of two other samurai (ISAMU NAGATO and MIKIJIRO HIRA), hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate. With remarkable storytelling economy and thrilling action scenes, this is an expertly mounted tale of revenge and loyalty.
Special Features:
- High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
- The Criterion Collection
- 93 mins approx
- Hideo Gosha
- 15
- Tetsuro Tamba
- Isamu Nagato
- Mikijiro Hira
English
- 1964
- Japanese
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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Undiscovered gem.
This deserves to be more popular in the west. Up there with the best of the Samurai genre masterpieces. If only the television show hadn't been lost.
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