Product Description: Legendary Epic Reborn!This 7-disc set contains the enitre Samurai 7 saga - over 11 hours of action!Samurai 7 is set in a futuristic world that has just seen the end of a massive war many villages are being terrorized by Nobuseri bandits. The Nobuseri are no normal bandits. They were once men but during the war they modifed themselves with machines to become living weapons and now apprear as more machine than man. A group of villagers decide to hire samurai to protect their village. These men of valor are as skilled as they are unique. Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Artist: SAMURAI 7 Rating: PG UPC: 704400058325 Manufacturer No: 1-4210-1304-5
Amazon.com: The broadcast series Samurai 7 (2004) borrows the premise of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954): driven to desperation by bandits who steal their crops, the inhabitants of a small village hire unemployed samurai to defend them. With nothing to offer as wages but their precious rice, the villagers recruit warriors poor enough to accept the dishonor of working for peasants. Samurai 7 moves the story into the future: the bandits and some of the samurai are mecha. The grim ronin Kambei leads the viewers in the defense of their village, then tackles the forces of the orchidaceous emperor Ukyo. Kambei and his mismatched band attack the Capitol,Ukyo's equivalent of the Death Star. The warriors perform gravity-defying leaps, as they slash through steel plating, deflect bullets, and split laser beams with their swords in a climactic battle that occupies most of the last three episodes. The drawn/CG combinations reveal why Samurai 7 cost a reported ¥32,500,000 (nearly $300,000) per episode, an extremely high price by Japanese standards.
Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of world cinema, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai stressed the shared humanity of the peasants, the samurai, and even the bandits; the often grotesque people and mecha in this sci-fi adventure lack that essential bond. Samurai 7 offers plenty of over-the-top battle sequences for viewers who enjoy a mixture of feudal and futuristic daring-do. But its meandering plot, stock heroes, and tin pot villains have very little to do with its supposed model. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, brief nudity, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
Great!! I bought this for my husband since he kept telling me about this really awesome show he used to watch years back. We started watching the series together, and boy do I like the show now too! I am really glad I bought this, and anyone who is interested in Anime should like it too. It is a 7 disc set, and everything came correctly. You should definitely buy this show!
Great fun! I know nothing of animated movies... My wife and I like and enjoy our cartoons and over the top action. This had that and more. Good story, deep characters, enjoyable action, and of course oh my gosh I can't believe he just did that...
Anyway we watched it with our kids and while there was a little bit of bloody violence I did not find it excessive.
Battles, animation, and honor This is a great animation that combines battles, traditional anime, some 3d animation. It honors some of the Japanese traditions, and the rice and their farmers are central themes of history. I've heard that a long time ago Japanese were divided in 4 main casts: farmers, samurai (warriors), merchants, and royalty. This story shows the struggles for power among these casts. The end is very emotional; indeed, not a children's storybook.
Disclaimer: I am a huge anime fan and my opinion might be biased :-)
BA if you enjoy samurai anime then you have got to see this series. it's a little slow in parts but what anime isn't. i highly recommend this series.
Decent To The Story But Feel Myself Lacking A True Liking I've had this box set for a few months and have tried to put my views here yes it follows the Seven Samurai storyline very well and the background animation was excellent as well as the CGI but the animation for the characters for half the episodes was either sub-par or decent.This is not meant to insult this series but when I first bought it I expected both an excellent anime plus character animation it seemed in some episodes that they were more concerned with the background than the characters drawing.This is a great story if you like samurai action,mecha battles,and sword combat but it sometimes got annoying looking at an episode and thinking a child drew it.The video is wide screen format with 5.1 english audio or 2.0 japanese audio as expected with Funimation they have gotten terrific voice actors for this anime as well as great japanese voice actors for this anime.The price is steep but again if you like samurai action flicks with a dose of sci-fi this series would be for you.
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