| Three Outlaw Samurai | |
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| Directed by | Hideo Gosha |
| Produced by | Ginichi Kishimoto Tetsuro Tamba |
| Written by | Keiichi Abe Eizaburo Shiba Hideo Gosha |
| Starring | Tetsuro Tamba Isamu Nagato Mikijiro Hira Yoshiko Kayama |
| Music by | Toshiaki Tsushima |
| Cinematography | Tadashi Sakai |
| Editing by | Kazuo Ota |
| Studio | Shochiku[1] |
| Release date(s) | 1964 |
| Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Three Outlaw Samurai is a 1964 Japanese chambara film by director Hideo Gosha.[2]
The film is an origin-story offshoot of the original Japanese television series of the same name. The film involves a wandering ronin (Tetsuro Tamba) who finds himself involved with two other samurai (Isamu Nagato and Mikijiro Hira) who are hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate.[2]
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The film was released in Japan in 1964. On February 14, 2012, the Criterion Collection will release a DVD and Blu-ray disc of the film.[2]