Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

Apr 7, 2009

1h 14m

★ 7.7

Put the 'chi' in munchie!

Overview

The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate, an ancientblade fabled to possess extraordinary supernaturalpowers.

Genres

Family

Mystery

Animation

Comedy

Action

Fantasy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Animation

Hanna-Barbera Productions

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword Trailers

Cast

Shaggy (voice)

Casey Kasem

Fred / Scooby-Doo (voice)

Frank Welker

Daphne (voice)

Grey DeLisle

Velma (voice)

Mindy Cohn

Miyumi / Miss Mirimoto (voice)

Kelly Hu

Sojo / The Black Samurai (voice)

Kevin Michael Richardson

Green Dragon (voice)

Brian Cox

Mr. Takagawa (voice)

Sab Shimono

Matsuhiro (voice)

Keone Young

Kenji (voice)

Gedde Watanabe

Old Man Samurai (voice)

George Takei

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