Samurai 7

I've been watching Samurai 7 over the last few months. I'm hooked on this show. It's an animated remake of The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) in a sci-fi universe. Quite well done. The half-hour TV show has the same chemistry among the samurai that the original actors managed to pull off. The storyline departs in a few places from the original, but it's handled well, I think.

Samurai 7 doesn't stop with the defeat of the bandits, but continues the story of the samurai where the original left off. Kambei discovers a link between the nobuseri and the emperor and he goes to the capital city (alone, honorable man that he is) to retrieve the women who have been stolen from the villages. Unexpected things happen and Kambei is currently sitting in a cell awaiting execution. Tune in next week to find out his clever plan.