Samurai Champloo, Volume 6 (Episodes 21-23)

Theatrical Release

January 11, 2005

DVD Release

January 11, 2005

Studio

Geneon [Pioneer]

Rated

NR (Not Rated)

Directors

Shinichirô Watanabe

Actors

Steven Jay Blum, George C. Cole, Michael Forest, Daisuke Gôri, Masako Katsuki, Otoya Kawano, Ayako Kawasumi, Reiko Kiuchi, William Knight (III), Michael McConnohie, Takehiro Murozono, Kazuya Nakai, Tomomichi Nishimura, Jamieson Price, Osamu Ryutani, Ginpei Sato, Kim Strauss, Kirk Thornton, Kari Wahlgren

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Formats

• Animated
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC

Additional Information

Director Shinichiro Watanabe continues to push the envelope as his outrageous adventure-comedy Samurai Champloo nears the end of its first season. The encounter between Fuu, Jin, and Mugen and a mysterious musician-assassin raises more questions than it answers: The three misfits' trip to Nagasaki apparently involves greater issues than they realize. Fans of Cowboy Bebop may find the eerily surreal "Cosmic Collisions" recalls the "Mushroom Samba" episode of Watanabe's previous series. A clipper ship from the U.S. arrives in Japan decades before Commodore Perry, and the depiction of the Americans is anything but flattering. A nascent crisis involving questions of honor has to be resolved in a baseball game: Mugen makes sports history as the first man to pitch a no-hitter in getta (platform clogs). Only Watanabe could drop a baseball game into an Edo-era coastal village and make it feel plausible. (Rated 16 and older: violence, violence against women, profanity, alcohol and tobacco use)--Charles Solomon - Amazon.com