There was even an English-language spinoff, “Blind Fury,” with Rutger Hauer. Now, actor-writer-director-TV-host Takeshi Kitano has revived this character in “The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi.” ...

Zatoichi offers both a Japanese and an English language track in Dolby Digital 5.1. The audio in both versions is clear, with good separation between voices, effects, and music. The overall ...

The hundred episodes of the TV series followed 1970s TV dynamics: Zatoichi was (mostly) unchanging from one episode to the next, and the 45-minute episodes (allowing for 15 minutes of ...

Inside the book you get a nice essay and some “tasting notes” for each of the films in turn and, best of all, a new English translation of the original Zatoichi short story by Kan Shimozawa.

“Zatoichi” starts out fairly far-out and ... Sound design Senji Horiuchi. In Japanese with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes. Exclusively at the ArcLight, 6360 W.

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi ...

Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director's chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. A tale of ...

The deal includes 20 Zatoichi films, eight Gamera films and three Daimajin films. The deal is for the Nordic countries initially, but the aim is for wider distribution eventually. In addition ...

It co-produced, with Japan’s Daiei Film Company, Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971), also known as Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman.

The English dub of Zatoichi is fine but if you can stand listening to it in Japanese I would recommend it. Redubs of any movie always sound cheesy no matter how hard the producers try to make it ...