Three Outlaw Samurai

Three Outlaw Samurai Sanbiki no Samurai is a 1964 Japanese chambara film by director Hideo Gosha.

The film was released in Japan in 1964. On February 14, 2012, the Criterion Collection released a DVD and Bluray disc of the film.Three Outlaw Samurai is a supremely confident bigscreen debut, whose surface simplicity masks a scathing vision of society lurking beneath. In some ways, it recalls Kurosawas samurai narratives, with its tale of renegade rnin who come to the aid of the dispossessed. But Goshas personal obsessions are all over the film, particularly in his depiction of the loss of honor through blind loyalty and its liberating opposite, the regaining of honor by betrayal, and in the sharp contrast he makes between the refined, comforting worlds of power and social duty and the wild, almost animalistic existence of those who choose freedom. And unlike Kurosawa, whose characters tend to be classically drawn and endlessly layered, Gosha often works in broad strokes his characters are archetypes, which he then deconstructs and plays off one another. A samurai can go from fighting alongside a group to fighting against them in one brief shot, as in Three Outlaw Samurai. These characters may be simple, but Goshas real interest is in the portrait of society he is creatingand that is anything but. ........

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