Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman was the ... fu scenes are static and do not involve the camera in the thick of the fight. By contrast, Zatoichi's samurai sword-fighting scenes, all quick ...

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to ...

Zatoichi" lacks gory scenes. When a sightless masseur chops off a gambler's hand, the amputated limb spouts a geyser of blood on par with anything in "Kill Bill." But the fight scenes, featuring ...

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father.

Far from being a choreographed fight-fest, Tale Of Zatoichi is largely a melancholic character study of a friendship between two haunted men. When the swords do come out, the action is swift and ...

Zatoichi not only survived and lived peacefully ... “I can’t even see... How can I fight?” “Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them.” He implores Skywalker to “reach out with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.