Revenge is a blade best served cold in Blue Eye Samurai. While samurai stories are nothing new to television, it's not every day that a female samurai gets the spotlight — especially a mixed-race warrior set in Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). Following Mizu's (Maya Erskine) violent path of revenge, Blue Eye Samurai sits somewhere between Quentin Tarantino's graphic intensity and the classic Japanese "chanbara" sword-fighting films of Akira Kurosawa.