Samurai Trilogy

Samurai I won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In a review almost 60 years after the release of the trilogy, the late academic and film critic Stephen Prince noted "the absence of gore" in the films: "Severed limbs and spurting arteries hadn't yet arrived as a movie convention, and the fights in The Samurai Trilogy are relatively chaste, not showing the carnage that such duels would have actually resulted in". The trilogy became an influence for future films. == References ==