Blue Eye Samurai creators Michael Green and Amber Noizumi talk about what it was like working in the world of animation and assembling the voice cast.
The Big Picture Netflix's action-packed new animated series Blue Eye Samurai is set in 17th-century Japan, also known as the country's Edo Period, and follows Mizu , a young biracial woman. The daughter of a cruel white man named Abijah Fowler , Mizu has been deemed a "creature of shame" by those around her. By disguising herself as a male samurai, Mizu embarks on a bloody and violent path of revenge against those who have wronged her and her loved ones.
Release Date November 3, 2023 Cast Maya Erskine, Kenneth Branagh, George Takei, Darren Barnet, Masi Oka, Randall Park, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Song, Stephanie Hsu, Ming-Na Wen, Harry Shum Jr, Mark Dacascos Main Genre Animation Genres Action, Adventure, Drama Writers Michael Green, Amber Noizumi, Yana Bille-Chung Streaming Sevice Netflix Directors Jane Wu, Michael Green, Alan Taylor Showrunner Michael Green, Amber Noizumi COLLIDER: I know this marks your first official time working...
NOIZUMI: Randall is amazing. As soon as we started writing, we were talking about who would potentially play the cast, and Maya Erskine immediately came to mind for Mizu. We had loved her work in PEN15. I mean, that's where, I think, most of the world was first exposed to her. The way she was able to portray the pain of being biracial as a young person, but she did it with such humor and ease, we knew that she could take that same sort of pain and channel it into anger and revenge.
NOIZUMI: Also, Kenneth is such a pro that it's one take. He goes through, he reads the lines, and we’re like, “Are we done? Okay, I guess we're done.” Another big question I had because I saw you posted on, I guess it's now X, even though I refuse to call it that, but that you guys had pitched it as Kill Bill meets Yentl, which I love that…GREEN: I mean, you have to start with Yentl not just the woman with a passion for an art form needing to hide that she is a woman in order to go into it, but also the love triangle, you know, the Hadass/Avigdor/Yentl love triangle is just absolutely where we wanted to be story-wise.
GREEN: I wanted to direct that episode because I was so in love with that script. I knew it would be the best episode no matter how badly I mangled it because of how beautiful the story was. There's a lot. We can go deep on that one. It's really a beautiful story. GREEN: What we just said from the start was we want characters who people will forget they're animated and just have the high degree of attachment they would as if it was a cast actor.
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