Samurai Gourmet

Samurai Gourmet (2017-)
Season 1 - 12 episodes (2017 March 17) 
Netflix Original Japanese Language Series
Availability: Global
1 season, season 2 pending

Plot:
Takeshi Kasumi, now retired, realizes he can eat and drink what he wants when he wants. This awakens the persona of a samurai living in the age of Japan's civil wars. He begins wandering Japan searching for food to satisfy his inner samurai soul.

Review:
Rating: Watch it / It depends / [Skip it]
  • This will not be for everyone. While it's an interesting concept, it's more concept than series. The episodes are only twenty minutes long, and while they are easy to watch they feel a bit like a short in style and production values. Each episode provides Kasumi enough time to consume a meal, debate in his head how strange yet freeing retirement is, and then imagining how a samurai would behave in the same situation. I like the concept, but after two episodes, there just isn't much there.
Read my review - Skip it 

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Trivia:
  • This live action series is based on the mange of the same title. 

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