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The Secret History of ‘Afro Samurai Resurrection’s’ Ogin, aka “Afro Lady”

A sad but true Hollywood story.

Paco Taylor
4 min readMar 31, 2021

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In Afro Samurai: Resurrection, Ogin is the alluring Afro-coiffed woman seen deftly maneuvering through rounds of Chō-Han, a traditional dice game in Japan. She makes her surprising on-screen appearance during the rowdy gambling house sequence in the jointly-produced 2009 animated film by…

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Paco Taylor

Paco writes about Eastern & Western pop culture, history, and art. He has bylines at CBR, G-Fan, Comics Beat, NeoText, and Nextshark | stpaco@gmail