Blue Eye Samurai
Trailer - Netflix
Samurai? Aren’t they Japanese? Isn’t this blog supposed to be about traditional Chinese martial arts?
Yes.
But.
I started my martial arts journey with a couple of years of Shukokai Karate and was always predisposed to matters oriental by my father who read widely about Zen Buddhism, had an appreciation for Japanese art, and in his retirement went on to learn Japanese.
From Wikipedia…
Blue Eye Samurai is a French-American adult animated action streaming television series created and written by husband and wife team Michael Green and Amber Noizumi, with supervising director and series producer Jane Wu, co-produced and animated by the French studio Blue Spirit [fr]. On December 11, 2023, the series was renewed for a second season.
and…
During Japan's Edo period (17th century), half-white half-Japanese Onna-musha Mizu quests for vengeance against four white men, one of whom is her father, who illegally remained in Japan during the closing of its borders by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Suffice to say I needed my tissues.
Warning: contains a lot of violence and adult themes.
Promotional material - IMDB
