The director of the classic anime series 'Cowboy Bebop', Shinichiro Watanabe, follows up with 'Samurai Champloo'. As in his previous series, Watanabe mixes genres and attitudes into a cohesive whole. 'Samurai Champloo' is set in feudal Japan, but combines that with a hip-hop soundtrack and attitude. 'Samurai Champloo' finds .. Read more
| Director | Shinichiro Watanabe |
|---|---|
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The director of the classic anime series 'Cowboy Bebop', Shinichiro Watanabe, follows up with 'Samurai Champloo'. As in his previous series, Watanabe mixes genres and attitudes into a cohesive whole. 'Samurai Champloo' is set in feudal Japan, but combines that with a hip-hop soundtrack and attitude. 'Samurai Champloo' finds three characters journeying through the countryside. The dissimilar warriors Mugen and Jin are held in uneasy alliance by flaky Fuu, who leads them on a quest to find the mysterious 'samurai who smells of sunflowers'. Volume six features four more episodes from the series.
| Director | Shinichiro Watanabe |
|---|---|
| Studio | MVM |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 15 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | Japanese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Aug 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
Another good set of episodes. Shame it's only 3 instead of 4 though. The last especially was cool.
The change in tone and mood between stories is one of the pleasures of Samurai Champloo - as in the first two here. But the baseball episode was disappointing - ill-natured rather than funny. Only half value on this disc!