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  • ABC Family
  • Sep 5, 2008
  • ABC Family
  • Sep 5, 2008
Samurai Girl

Summary A nineteen-year-old girl called Heaven discovers that the well-to-do businessman who adopted her as an infant is actually the head of Yakuza, the Japanese mafia responsible for murdering her brother. Upon leaving her family Heaven decides to become a samurai with the help of her new American friends, and grows determined to take down her...

  • ABC Family
  • Sep 5, 2008
  • ABC Family
  • Sep 5, 2008
Samurai Girl
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 5, 2008
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
62
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Summary A nineteen-year-old girl called Heaven discovers that the well-to-do businessman who adopted her as an infant is actually the head of Yakuza, the Japanese mafia responsible for murdering her brother. Upon leaving her family Heaven decides to become a samurai with the help of her new American friends, and grows determined to take down her...

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Episode 1 • Sep 5, 2008 • 43 m
Book of the Sword: Part 1
Episode 2 • Sep 5, 2008 • 43 m
Book of the Sword: Part 2
With the help of Jake, Heaven continues her samurai traing and also discovers secrets about herself and her family.
Episode 3 • Sep 6, 2008 • 43 m
Book of the Heart: Part 1
Heaven needs to reunite with her family to get some important information, so she hatches a plan to get Cheryl and Otto invited to a family dinner so they can distract her father while she gets the information she needs.
Episode 4 • Sep 6, 2008 • 42 m
Book of the Heart: Part 2
Someone from Jake's past reappears and causes friction between Heaven and Jake, while Heaven must make a decision between Jake and Severin.
Episode 5 • Sep 7, 2008 • 42 m
Book of the Shadow: Part 1
Heaven begins to suspect Karen's loyalty, and tries to warn Jake, but arrives too late.
Episode 6 • Sep 7, 2008 • 43 m
Book of the Shadow: Part 2
Karen kidnaps Cheryl in hopes Heaven will follow which will set the wheels in motion to fulfill Heaven's prophesized powers.

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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83
The winning Samurai has lots of action, and is generously peppered with comedic asides. [5 Sep 2008, p.70]
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75
Its newest show, Samurai Girl, is an action-packed, three-night martial arts miniseries that introduces girls to the world of Asian action flicks.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
70
It's not perfect, but it certainly is different, so why not just enjoy the ride?
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
63
The first two hours are decent.
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50
It needs a lot more moments like the one when the samurai girl bursts through a door to find her chauffeur on the verge of disemboweling himself. “Seriously?” she asks, eyeing the knife in his hands. “Seppuku?”
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50
Samurai Girl takes up a lot of time and space, but manages to do only one surprising thing: prove that it's possible to be action-packed and dull at the same time.
By Joanna Weiss FULL REVIEW
40
Samurai Girl tries to spice things up visually with comicbook-style act breaks, but the fighting sequences would need to be staged more imaginatively to compensate for the various deficiencies, and frankly -- even with a few skewerings and a torture scene -- those shiny swords can do only so much damage on ABC Family
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