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Zatoichi Challenged

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67
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NR 1 hr 27 minAdventure, Drama, ActionZatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection PosterPart of Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection
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Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
StarringShintarō KatsuJūshirō KonoeMiwa Takada
DirectorKenji Misumi

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Executive Producers:Masaichi Nagata
Production Companies:Daiei Film
Movie Tags:
sequeljidaigekisamuraiswordkatanazatoichi

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection

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 be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.