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When a wild warrior crosses the path of a vagrant ronin, they team up to save a girl from execution. It is not long before the girl has persuaded the unlikely duo to help her find a mysterious samurai. Read more

Starring	Ayako Kawasumi, Ginpei Sato, Kazuya Nakai
Director	Shinichiro Watanabe
Genres	Animated

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  bigger than hip hop
  
  When you hear the word 'samurai' you might be fooled into expecting an historical epic. If thats what your looking for, you won't find it here. ... read more »
  
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- 199480
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  - Rozah
  - Birmingham, England
  - 27 Jan 2006 at 19:17
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  Really good
  
  Really good and enjoyable. Is the story about the Japanese sunflower painting inspiring van Gogh's sunflower painting true? Nice piece of work
  
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- 1118889
- - thepresidentofunitedstates
  - 38 reviews
  - 13 May 2012 at 20:10
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  Skip the Dub
  
  Such a cool anime! the characters are brilliant, and the story just twists and turns, with a few light relief episodes along the way. Please do yourself a ... read more »
  
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- 1012641
- - Saksun
  - 2 reviews
  - 03 Jul 2011 at 20:43
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  'Samurai Champloo 1'
  
  Awesome anime, great action and dark humour, but best of all it's the characters that make this work so well. No surprise this is popular.
  
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- - Chairmosher
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  - St. Neots
  - 02 Jun 2009 at 13:05
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  - 5
  what a load of horse p|ss
  
  I've never felt compelled to write a review on here before, but after watching this I felt I had to.
  
  I absolutely love samurai/kung fu films as ... read more »
  
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  - Acton
  - 21 Mar 2009 at 21:26
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  Customer Review
  
  I would personally rate Samurai Champloo as one of my favourite anime series, along with Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. As ever the series format allows ... read more »
  
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  - UK
  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  Almost Perfection
  
  I have seen the entire series - all 26 episodes - and with the exception of one or two towards the end, the entire series is a flawless combination of engaging ... read more »
  
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- - Benni
  - 1 review
  - Birmingham
  - 11 Jun 2008 at 08:37
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  None Standard Disc
  
  The disc sent out had been laminated in plastic, perhaps teffalon, to prevent scratches. After this protective layer is applied the disc is about 1 millimeter ... read more »
  
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- - AndyOrbit
  - 2 reviews
  - Hemel Hempstead
  - 29 May 2008 at 06:25
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  good anima
  
  Very good series, I definetly will keep watching
  
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  - London
  - 29 Dec 2007 at 19:59
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  samurai champloo
  
  Great start to a anime series,looking forward to watching the rest
  
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- - jem
  - 2 reviews
  - Amlwch
  - 19 Nov 2007 at 09:37
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  Very Enjoyable
  
  A good touch of humor, good stories and very well drawn make this well worth watching. The fight scenes are done with skill and play down the gory side while ... read more »
  
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  - 05 Jul 2007 at 15:28
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  bigger than hip hop
  
  When you hear the word 'samurai' you might be fooled into expecting an historical epic. If thats what your looking for, you won't find it here. ... read more »
  
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- 199480
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  - Rozah
  - Birmingham, England
  - 27 Jan 2006 at 19:17
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  A whole lot of fun
  
  I was extremely impressed with this new Anime. The animation is crisp, the stories are fun to watch with great fight scenes. The much discussed 'hip hop'... read more »
  
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- - Bush1
  - East Sussex
  - 20 Oct 2005 at 11:33
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  Kung fu kick hop
  
  Hip Hop meets Anime: not quite the masterpiece mix that it claimed to be, as the Hip Hop iconography is more like a quirkey little addition to what is simply ... read more »
  
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- 352160
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  - Koppert
  - 257 reviews
  - Scarborough
  - 24 Oct 2005 at 12:58
- - 4
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  great fun
  
  Only seen 12 episodes and currently can’t find a much wanted box set so this is an incomplete review. Basically, it’s really well drawn and a lot of ... read more »
  
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- - chungking
  - 101 reviews
  - London
  - 03 Apr 2006 at 17:49
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  good anima
  
  Very good series, I definetly will keep watching
  
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  - London
  - 29 Dec 2007 at 19:59
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  so so good
  
  man is this good. amazing drawings amazing animation and one seriously good soundtrack. this is one very cool series.
  
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  - cornwall
  - 26 Feb 2006 at 10:22
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  Shinichiro Watanabe - the master of cool
  
  If you know your anime then youll know Shinichiro was the man behind what was the ground breaking Anime 'Cowboy Bebop'.He brought cool into the Anime ... read more »
  
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- - Jon
  - London
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 00:22
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  Beautiful, state of the art and really cool!
  
  So much Japanese anime fails because it is rare to get everything (the look, the story, the emotiveness, the characters) all perfect - but this one, along with ... read more »
  
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- - TerraeFilius
  - Darkest Oxfordshire
  - 24 Apr 2006 at 17:26
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  Very Enjoyable
  
  A good touch of humor, good stories and very well drawn make this well worth watching. The fight scenes are done with skill and play down the gory side while ... read more »
  
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  - N Ireland
  - 05 Jul 2007 at 15:28
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  samurai champloo
  
  Great start to a anime series,looking forward to watching the rest
  
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- - jem
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  - Amlwch
  - 19 Nov 2007 at 09:37

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  When a wild warrior crosses the path of a vagrant ronin, they team up to save a girl from execution. It is not long before the girl has persuaded the unlikely duo to help her find a mysterious samurai....