Three Outlaw Samurai

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Three Outlaw Samurai
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Hideo Gosha
Written by	Keiichi Abe Eizaburo Shiba Hideo Gosha
Produced by	Ginichi Kishimoto Tetsuro Tamba
Starring	Tetsuro Tamba Isamu Nagato Mikijirō Hira Yoshiko Kayama
Cinematography	Tadashi Sakai
Edited by	Kazuo Ota
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Production company	Shochiku
Release date	1964 (1964)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Three Outlaw Samurai (Japanese: 三匹の侍, Hepburn: Sanbiki no Samurai) is a 1964 Japanese chambara film directed and co-written by Hideo Gosha in his feature-length debut.^[1][2]

The film is an origin-story offshoot of Gosha's 1963 Japanese television series of the same name, with the same lead actors, Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, and Mikijirō Hira.^[3][4] The film involves a wandering ronin who finds himself involved with two other samurai who are hired to execute a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of a corrupt magistrate.^[1]