He starred in 24 more Zatoichi films between 1962 and 1973, 100 episodes of a Zatoichi TV series between 1974 and 1979 and one final send-off in 1989’s Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally.

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 ...

a strip club owner who'd acquired rights to the Zatoichi character from Katsu. When she decided to revive the series, Saito recruited longtime friend Kitano, who had worked in her nightclubs when ...

The repetition in such a long-running and beloved series (and its sequels) led to the character and its associated tropes being fully absorbed by pop culture in Japan. Zatoichi homages were ...

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 story of Zatoichi is well known in Japan as a long-running movie series (26 total) starring Shintaro Katsu. Zatoichi is a wandering blind masseuse who travels from village to village ...

From the description in the review, a few minutes were snipped from the ending, allowing both the One-Armed Swordsman and Zatoichi to survive. In this regular feature series on the best of Hong ...

The Double-Edged Sword film series offers seminal works from each actor's arsenal chambara epics. Popular films such as Samurai Vendetta and three choice selections from the Zatoichi series are ...

He starred in 24 more Zatoichi films between 1962 and 1973, 100 episodes of a Zatoichi TV series between 1974 and 1979 and one final send-off in 1989’s Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally.