i recall watch this program a a young boy in australia in the 60 and and enjoy it on dvd again a a 50 year old father of young kid . although the bad guy be mostly shallow character and there be a component of violence and i be very happy to have my 6 and 8 year old kid watch this because the central character be deep and kind and honourable and the japanese culture shine through and the violence be not gory and nobody glory in it and and the program be beautiful to watch . it do not promote nightmare and but instead it show much of the culture that must have primarily influence the design of jedi knight in star war . the quality of the dvd do leave something to be desire . video perfectionist will not like this one . it be strongly reminiscent of something hold on 16mm film and project onto the wall in some basement . which it may well be . the soundtrack be also lack in the quality we have come to expect from home theatre . however and my kid notice only that it be not in colour and and i suspect they only notice that because we have be talk recently about how old thing be often like that . the beauty of mt fuji be evident even in b and w. something about the 17th century setting make the quality part of the atmosphere and a if you peer into the past through some time window . overall this program be good than most thing on the air and and a far well advertisement for japanese tv than pokemon and but you may consider it of marginal value if you do not have the experience of see it back in the 60 . my score of positive take it age into account .