Blue Eye SamuraiCuts It Up in a Bloody, Slick First Trailer

During its animation - focussed “ cliff 01″ livestream effect , Netflixunveiled a first look at Blue Eye Samurai , a firebrand unexampled series from Michael Green ( A Haunting in Venice ) , his co - writer / wife Amber Noizumi , and supervising theater director Jane Wu ( question With a Vampire ) .

congeal in 1633 Japan during the Edo period , the series star Maya Erskine as Mizu , a hardened attack aircraft whose biracial status is made readable by the blue center she inherited from her white Fatherhood . front to put a blade through his stomach for attack her mother , Mizu carves a very bloody track through the land in her pursuit for revenge , all the while attempt to conceal her identity . Along the way , she crosses paths with a act of character , including a noodle chef named Ringo ( Masi Oka ) who decides to tag along with her and the blacksmith who taught her how to press ( Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa ) .

Blue Eye Samurai receive a full launching fromVanity Fairjust yesterday , where it was distinguish as “ unapologetically adults - only … swan in tonicity from tragic to poetic to barbaric and occasionally titillating . ” Beyond all the bloodshed , the show is say to feature corrupt rulers and aristocrats and sleazy human marketer , things often meet by someone in the thick of a retaliation spree . And like other retaliation history , the serial will show Mizu get a line to connect with others again , which Green call “ a very hard lesson for her to see . ” While the first half of the season will show her having acts of mercifulness and compassion blowing up in her expression , the second one-half will expose “ that maybe being vulnerable is okay and pays its own dividend . ”

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The eight - episode season of Blue Eye Samurai will score Netflix November 3 . The series also star Brenda Song , Stephanie Hsu , George Takei , and Kenneth Branagh .

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