This director, Hideo Gosha, is the third best Samurai/Jidaigeki movie director (Behind Kurosawa and Kobayashi), and I think he does the best fight scenes/fight choreography of all three. Basically in this movie, a samurai takes up the cause of peasants petitioning their lord for fair treatment, and is eventually joined by two other samurai. Like Sword of the Beast (also Gosha), this movie is basically action and swordfights from start to finish, in the best way possible. There's just enough plot and character motivation thrown into this one to make the choices of the samurai seem realistic, and the camerawork, scene setting is surprisingly subtle for a movie where the fighting in the main focus. The music scoring is a little distracting at times, and I think the characters/plot are pretty standard for a samurai movie, but otherwise it's fantastic.
Review of Three Outlaw Samurai
