If you like that sort of thing...

...Rico's friend Kelley offers this suggestion:

If you have Netflix Streaming, allow me to recommend a samurai tale: Samurai Champloo.
I don't know what Champloo is supposed to signify in English, but it was originally Samurai Chanpuru in Japanese. According to Wikipedia, chanpuru means 'to mix' or 'hash'. I guess we'd call it Samurai Mish-Mosh, as they try to do an alternative Tokogawa Japan and mix in hip-hop elements. Fortunately, these are not too intrusive and consist mainly of an extended hip-hop song in the opening credits (in which the graphics are quite good). After Episode One, I just moved the cursor to !:50 and by-passed it altogether. This only ran for one season, but there are 26 episodes. It starts with a young  girl named Fu (Wind) working in her uncle's teahouse as a waitress. Some rude dudes are putting moves on her as Mugen (Infinite, or 'without limits') comes in. He's mid-twenties and an absolute wild man who will fight anyone, anytime. He offers to cool them out for fifty dumplings. As things get tense, Jin arrives. He's the typical stoic, calm samurai. We later find out that he's in his late thirties, but does not appear to be so. In the ensuing fight the local governor's son, plus six or more of his thuggish buddies are killed, and the teahouse burns down. Jin and Mugen are arrested and are to be beheaded at sunset the next day. Fu manages to rescue them (much swordwork involved) and for her services, extracts a promise from them to help her find "the samurai who smells like sunflowers". Thus starts a buddy-movie road trip.
For anime, the artwork is quite good and the swordwork is always compelling. It does have some soap opera quality, but you can always fast forward.

Rico says he likely won't be watching, not being a huge fan of anime, but you might...