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    The First 7 Minutes of ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Is a Bloody Tale of Revenge

    The animated series stars Maya Erskine, Darren Barnet, Brenda Song, and more.

    By Phillipe Thao
    Nov. 2, 2023

Draw your swords: The first seven minutes of Blue Eye Samurai have arrived.

The sneak peek clip of the new animated series takes us back to Edo-period Japan where the country’s borders are closed to the outside world. Because of these circumstances, anyone born mixed-race is considered less than human and shunned by society. It’s during these times that we meet our hero Mizu (Maya Erskine), who wears amber-tinted sunglasses to disguise her blue eyes.

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Mizu is a skilled master of the sword and she’s out for blood. Her prey? The four white men who live in Japan. She believes one of them is her father, who made her a “creature of shame,” and she’ll go to great lengths to hunt them down. In order to do so, Mizu must disguise herself as a man. Things already get pretty gory in the first scene of the series, as Mizu draws her blade and dismembers a man in a soba shop. Blue Eye Samurai premieres Nov. 3, but you can watch the bloodshed unfold in the Red Band trailer below. (Undecapitated heads up: View below at your own risk — the violence and adult content more than earns its Red Band status.) 

The animated series is co-created by wife and husband team Amber Noizumi and Michael Green (Logan, Blade Runner 2049), with Jane Wu (Mulan, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Game of Thrones) serving as supervising director and producer. “It’s an Edo-period tale of revenge — Kill Bill meets Yentl,” Noizumi told Netflix.

Blue Eye Samurai also stars Masi Oka, Darren Barnet, Brenda Song, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Randall Park, Kenneth Branagh, Stephanie Hsu, Ming-Na Wen, Harry Shum Jr., and Mark Dacascos. “We weren’t looking for people who had a ton of voice-over work experience,” said Noizumi. “We wanted representation so that even our group actors who were just murmurs in the background [were] also Asian. That was our top priority.”

Are you ready for revenge? Blue Eye Samurai premieres Nov. 3 on Netflix.

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