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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Kan Shimosawa (story)
Takayuki Yamada (writer)
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Release Date:
13 January 1971 (Japan) more
Tagline:
A legendary figure in Japan is Zatoichi - the blind masseur with healing hands and a swift sword.
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Zatoichi films? This is a good place to start... more (8 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Shintarô Katsu | ... | Zatôichi | |
| Yu Wang | ... | Wang Kong | |
| Watako Hamaki | ... | Sen | |
| Michie Terada | ... | Yone | |
| Kôji Nanbara | ... | Kakuzen | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tôru Abe | ... | Boss Toubei | |
| Katsutoshi Akiyama | |||
| Yuutaroo Ban | |||
| Yi Chang | ... | Shamo | |
| Yuuji Hamada | |||
| Tokue Hanazawa | |||
| Seishirô Hara | |||
| Tsutomu Hashimoto | |||
| Shirô Itô | ... | Stooge | |
| Tadashi Iwata | |||
| Masato Kagawa | |||
| Jun Katsumura | ... | Toubei yakuza | |
| Kanae Kobayashi | ... | Shige | |
| Goro Kumon | |||
| Gen Kuroki | |||
| Yuzou Kusakawa | |||
| Noritake Matsuda | |||
| Shinsuke Minami | ... | Henoichi | |
| Shoji Mori | |||
| Junjiro Niida | |||
| Osamu Okawa | |||
| Hitoshi Omae | |||
| Jun Ôsugi | |||
| Takamaru Sasaki | |||
| Kyôichi Satô | ... | Yakuza | |
| Jun Satomi | |||
| Mitsuo Totsuka | ... | Kame | |
| Ling Wang | ... | Yumay (as Su Lin) | |
| Ichirô Yamamoto | |||
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Blind Swordsman Meets His Equal
Zatôichi 22 (Japan) (informal title)
Zatoichi Meets His Equal
Zatoichi Meets His Match
Zatoichi Meets the 1-Arm Swordsman
Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman
Zatoichi and the One Armed Swordsman
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Runtime:
94 min
Color:
Color (Daieicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Australia:M
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The last Zatoichi film produced by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (which had went bankrupt). Toho Company took over the films for the rest of the decade (along with Shintarô Katsu's own Katsu Productions, which coproduced the films since 1967). more
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Followed by Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri (1973) more
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One of the more accessible films in the series due to its simpler story (two heroes ally themselves against an evil but then find themselves on different sides due to a mis-understanding). Though the Zatoichi films often vary in style and in tone, the themes (treat others as you would wish to be treated, be true to your word, gamble within your means, etc), remain constant. Here, the language barrier between Zatoichi and The One-Armed Swordsman (one is Chinese, the other Japanese), is a theme that will have had a greater resonance for its native audience rather than those in the west, but the story works well just as a straight-forward adventure yarn. Shintarô Katsu is as reliably great as ever. By turns dynamic and exacting with the sword, warm of heart with the just and needy, steely and unmerciful of the greedy and vindictive. Zatoichi is one of the great movie heroes. Shintarô Katsu, one of the great heroic actors. If you haven't seen these films then you could do worse than start here.