Name: Samurai Champloo
Released: 2004-05-19T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Kari Wahlgren, Steve Blum, Kirk Thornton

TV Show · Anime · Action

Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets them out of hot water with the local magistrate, they agree to join her search for the samurai who smells like sunflowers.

2004 · 23m

Starring Kari Wahlgren, Steve Blum, Kirk Thornton

EPISODE 1

Tempestuous Temperaments

Fuu is a part-time teahouse worker whose life changes forever when two vagabond warriors, Mugen and Jin, stumble into her place of business and end up in hot water with the local magistrate.

23m
EPISODE 2

Redeye Reprisal

When Mugen wounds Ryujiro’s arm, it sets off a dangerous chain reaction. Fuu is kidnapped, and two deadly assassins are dispatched to make short work of vagabond Mugen and ronin Jin.

23m
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

After leaving the domineering Fuu behind, Mugen and Jin arrive in town. Once there, it’s not long before they’re hired on as bodyguards by the two groups that run the city.

23m
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

The paths Mugen, Jin, and Fuu follow bring them together again, but their reunion is put on hold when an untimely mistake intensifies the struggle between two groups fighting for control of one city.

23m
EPISODE 5

Artistic Anarchy

Unable to pay for a small ferryboat, the three go their separate ways into town to make some money for the fare. Fuu picks up a modeling job which turns out to be a trap.

23m
EPISODE 6

Stranger Searching

Mugen and the others finally arrive in Edo and find themselves participating in an eating contest. While on a tour of Edo led by a stranger named Joji, they get chased by a concentric group of foreigners and mysterious Zen priests.

23m