Samurai Jack

TV Series
2001–2017
TV-MA
23m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

62K

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Dark Fantasy Hand-Drawn Animation One-Person Army Action Samurai Time Travel Action Adventure Animation Drama Fantasy

A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

62K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,543

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Top rated TV #206

Won 8 Primetime Emmys
- 20 wins & 13 nominations total

Episodes62

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Trivia
Creator Genndy Tartakovsky has acknowledged taking some of his inspiration from the Frank Miller graphic novel "Ronin", including the premise of a masterless samurai warrior thrown into a dystopic future ahead of our present.

Quotes
Aku: Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape shifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil. But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time, and flung him into the future where my evil is law. Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku.

Crazy credits
Season 4 ended with Episode 52, and season 5 starts with Episode 92, leaving a gap of 39 episodes to emphasize how much time has passed.

Connections
Featured in 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005)

Soundtracks
Never Forget You
Performed by Zara Larsson and MNEK

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If Kurasawa directed a cartoon, SAMURAI JACK would be it

Rich in visual design, and with an dark, gritty atmosphere, SAMURAI JACK is a landmark cartoon in the making. It tells the story of a Japanese warrior with the unlikely name of Jack who undergoes some serious training to take on a ruthless wizard named Aku (which means "evil" in Japanese). Filled with hard-edged action (but with no grapic violence, since SAMURAI JACK is a product of the Cartoon Network) and a nifty storyboard that switches from feudal Japan to a BLADE RUNNER-like future, SAMURAI JACK is an animated revevaltion waiting to happen.