Samurai Champloo

Fuu, a waitress who is being intimidated by the village prefect's son and his guard, begs 19-year-old vagabond Mugen for help. Across town, skilled 20-year-old rōnin Jin kills the prefect's bodyguards as they prepare to kill a peasant.

A bodyguard of the prefect's son plots revenge against Mugen after he sliced off his arm in the restaurant.

Mugen and Jin, annoyed with Fuu's demands, disband the group at a fork in the road, each taking separate paths, unknowingly joining the ranks of two gangs involved in a conflict.

A dice-rolling contest will decide the fate of the gang warfare.

Fuu models for ukiyo-e artist Hishikawa Moronobu, only to end up targeted as a kidnapper group's next victim.

The trio enters into an eating competition with Mugen's and Jin's swords on the line.

While Fuu, Jin and Mugen are going to get some soup, Fuu's purse is stolen by a thief in the town

A singing swordsman hunts for Jin, challenging any samurai-wearing glasses he can find, accompanied by a beat-boxing duo of thugs.

Mugen, Jin and Fuu need to cross a border so they purchase travel passes since they don't have any. When their passes turn out to be fake, the trio are sentenced to death.

Mugen faces the lethal challenge of a Shaolin-trained swordsman and proves equal to the test, while Jin gets stuck doing all the housework.

Jin comes to the rescue of a lady in distress. He falls in love and tries to rescue this woman from the hard life she has come to face.

Mugen steals Fuu's diary that she has been keeping since they first started on their journey to find the sunflower samurai.

Mugen's past memories lure him back into his violent past; a pirate makes secret plans; and the lust for gold brings betrayal.

When Mugen finds out what the pirate was planning to do, he gets his revenge.

The shogun's prettiest ninja ends up giving Mugen an evening that he will never forget. Meanwhile, Fuu gets large from eating too much.

Mugen, Jin and Fuu get into a quarrel and separate, and have unexpected encounters.

Jin ends a life he hoped to spare.

Fuu gets a facelift when kids trade in the sword for the graffiti brush; Jin keeps a promise to a long-lost friend and confronts the shock of the new, while Mugen learns to read and conquers a castle.

A cynical charlatan fleeces the hidden Christian flock, Fuu gets closer to the Sunflower Samurai, and a truth is finally revealed.

Fuu, Mugen and Jin meet up with a blind girl who is a traveling musician. Because of her blindness, she is able to sense the emotions of the group.

Jin learns the Way of Water, a woman's sorrow comes to an end, and Mugen both gives and receives an assassin's last gift.

On the way to Nagasaki the trio fall through a mine shaft. They're introduced to its charismatic owner and start working for a share of treasure.

An American sea vessel arrives in town and a canny ninja-turned-team manager enlists our heroes to do battle with them on the field of honor.

Fuu, Mugen and Jin have finally arrived in Nagasaki to find Ikitsuki Island in search of the Sunflower Samurai.

As Jin duels Kagetoki Kariya, the most powerful man in the shogunate, Mugen has to contend with three brothers who want his head.