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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi

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Blind traveler Zatoichi (Beat Takeshi) is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When coming to a town in control of warring gangs, bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.

Genre:

Action, Comedy, Crime

Actors:

Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ohkusu, Taka Guadalcanal, Daigorô Tachibana, Yûko Daike, Yui Natsukawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Saburô Ishikura, Akira Emoto, Ben Hiura, ...»

Director:

Takeshi Kitano

Country:

Japan

Release:

2003

IMDb:

7.4

Quality:

Duration:

116 min

KEYWORDS:

#Tadanobu Asano #Takeshi Kitano #The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi #Yui Natsukawa

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ACTORS OF "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi"

Takeshi Kitano

18 January 1947, Tokyo, Japan

Tadanobu Asano

27 November 1973, Yokohama, Japan

Michiyo Ohkusu

27 February 1946, China

Taka Guadalcanal

16 December 1956, Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Daigorô Tachibana

27 January 1987, Japan

Yûko Daike

9 August 1971, Kôchi, Japan

Yui Natsukawa

1 June 1968, Kumamoto, Japan

Ittoku Kishibe

9 January 1947, Kyoto, Japan

Saburô Ishikura

16 December 1946, Kagawa, Japan

Akira Emoto

3 November 1948, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Ben Hiura

25 January 1943, Tokyo, Japan

19 April 1960, Osaka, Japan

Tsumami Edamame

1 June 1958, Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Kosuke Ohta

Yoshiyuki Morishita

4 December 1962, Tokyo, Japan

Naomasa Musaka

10 April 1954, Tokyo, Japan

7 September 1964, Hyogo, Japan

Ayano Yoshida

Taichi Saotome

Kanji Tsuda

27 August 1965, Fukui, Japan

DIRECTORS OF "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi"

Takeshi Kitano

18 January 1947, Tokyo, Japan

CREATORS OF "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi"

Kan Shimozawa

1 February 1892, Atsuta-mura, Atsuta-gun, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

Takeshi Kitano

18 January 1947, Tokyo, Japan

HEROES OF "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi"

Zatoichi

Played by: Takeshi Kitano

Hattori Genosuke

Played by: Tadanobu Asano

Shinkichi

Played by: Taka Guadalcanal

CRITICS OF "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi"

Cinema Signals

Three-frame cuts of the action from multiple camera angles, hose-spurted blood and superimposed wounds do what they can in their primitive way to get you past the problem of improbability.

September 17, 2009

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Newsweek

Zatoichi is a mix-and-match crowd-pleaser that shouldn't add up, but delightfully does.

November 01, 2007

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Common Sense Media

This non-traditional samurai movie isn't for kids.

December 28, 2010

Miami Herald

This is a wonderfully odd movie, proof that an artist can leave his personal stamp on any film, no matter the genre.

August 20, 2004

Movie Metropolis

Zatoichi is a bloody film that also manages to be beautiful and funny.

September 22, 2009

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Movie Views

Violent and bloody, carefully choreographed and filled with dry humor, Takeshi Kitano's modern take on the classic Japanese character is a unique vision that's told with confidence.

September 27, 2009

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Cinema Crazed

Beat Takeshi's take on the Zatoichi storyline is very entertaining and continuously original...

April 29, 2009

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Orlando Sentinel

This isn't arty violence, just violence, and pretty pedestrian for a samurai picture.

August 27, 2004

Associated Press

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi begins life as a straight-up samurai movie, evolves into a slapstick comedy and ends as a rousing, tap-dancing musical.

May 27, 2011

Time Out

However improbably, Kitano pulls it off quite gloriously. Admittedly, this isn't one of his most idiosyncratic, innovative or, indeed, satisfying works, but it's without doubt fast, funny, fabulous to behold.

February 09, 2006

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Arizona Republic

For those unfamiliar with such films, Zatoichi might be a little off-putting. But given a chance, the movie can be pretty entertaining.

September 30, 2004

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