Three Outlaw Samurai

Original title: 三匹の侍

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

Directed by Hideo Gosha

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.