Mugen, Jin, and Fuu careen through time and
cultures like pool balls on a wild carom as
Shinchiro Watanabe's Samurai Champloo continues.
In the accompanying notes, writer Dai Sato
comments that he and Watanabe "like counterculture
and rebellious music.
No wonder Mugen stumbles onto an anti-government
cabal of medieval warrior-priestsand shares a
Jimi Hendrix song with them. In the darker episode
11, taciturn Jin falls for a woman who has been
sold into prostitution to pay her husband's
gambling debts.
Mugen and Jin finally realize that they're getting
no closer to finding the mysterious "samurai who
smells of sunflowers, so they take advantage of a
lull to read Fuu's diary. Her blunt comments about
their looks, demeanor, and behavior don't please
her prying companions, but they add a dose of
humor to an episode comprised of flashbacks.
| Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Runtime: | 100 min. |
| Number of discs: | 1 |
