Samurai Girl is an ABC Family Mini Series, that aired in September 2008, about a girl named Heaven and her journey as a Samurai. It is based off of the book series of the same name by Carrie Asai.
The series consists of six episodes that aired over the course of three days, with Friday airing the Book of the Sword two-parter, Saturday airing Book of the Heart parts one and two, and Sunday finishing with the final two episodes, Book of the Shadow.
This miniseries provides examples of:
- And the Adventure Continues: The series ends with Heaven bumping into Sato and a bunch of ninja, ready to take them out.
- Feed the Mole: Heaven gives a fake location of where to take the artifacts so that Karen will relay the wrong location.
- In the Back: Karen throws a knife at Jake right after he finds out that she's The Mole.
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures: You'd think something with Samurai in the title would be heavy in Japanese people. Instead, it's just heavy in Asians in general.
- Interrupted Suicide: Sato ordered Noriyuki to kill himself, but Heaven and Jake thankfully arrive just in time.
- Love Dodecahedron: Heaven is engaged to Teddy who actually liked her, but Heaven has a crush on Jake. Then Heaven meets Otto who has a major crush on her, but so does Jake. Then Jake's (ex-)fiance, Karen arrives back in town with much approval from Otto.
- Meaningful Name: She's called Heaven because it seemed as if she fell from the sky as the sole survivor of a plane crash.
- Naked First Impression: When Heaven and Otto "officially" meet, Otto is not wearing pants.
- Not the Fall That Kills You…: Heaven is forced to cut Jake's rope while rock climbing and he falls to his supposed death.
- Precision F-Strike: In the first episode no less!Heaven: "Shh. Keep your voice down. Can you help me get outta here?"Woman: "She's in here!"Heaven: "Bitch!"
- Race Lift: Jake was Asian in the books.
- Runaway Bride: Heaven. Although, it's not like she had much of a choice.
- Samurai in Ninja Town: Ninja are frequently used as the antagonists.
- Weddings in Japan: Inverted. Heaven has an Eastern-style wedding, but travels to California to have it.
- You Killed My Brother: Heaven watches her brother get stabbed, which is her motivation to train to be a Samurai.