Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo (2005)

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Director Shinichiro Watanabe mixes a maturity rarely found in anime with a historical Japanese setting and a funky hip-hop soundtrack. Fuu is a spacey waitress at a teahouse where a sword fight breaks out between Mugen, a wild warrior, and Jin, a more composed ronin. In exchange for saving them from… More

Unrated, 50 min.
Genres
Animation
On DVD
Jan 11, 2005

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Saskia D


    A unique mix between hiphop- and Samurai culture, it works brilliant. Very funny, nice chemistry between the characters.

  • Drew S


    Has a lot of strengths, but way too many episodes that don't advance anything - the plot, the characters, or the setting. This could have been made into a 13-episode series and lost almost nothing.

  • Sarah B


    Brilliant old school meets modernity anime series.