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Released
1964 · FILM

Three Outlaw Samurai

One...two...three Samurai filling the giant screen with flashing swordplay

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
Language
JA
ActionDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate in hopes of coercing him into reducing taxes. Shiba joins their cause, accompanied by two renegades from the magistrate’s guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws become engaged in a battle to the death.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kazuo OtaShot by Tadashi SakaiScored by Toshiaki Tsushima

Also known as

  • Three Outlaw Samuraide
  • Three Outlaw Samuraien
  • Les Trois Samouraïs hors-la-loifr

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