An excellent example of the kind of immediacy and action evident in the best genre is seen Gosha's first film, the "Three Outlaw Samurai", based on a television series. Three farmers kidnap the daughter of the local magistrate in order to call attention to the starvation of local peasants, a ronin appears and decides to help them. In the process, two other ronin with shifting allegiances join the drama, the conflict widens, eventually leading to betrayal, assassination and battles between armies of mercenary "ronin".