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While traveling the Japanese countryside the blind masseur Zatoichi ( Shintaro Katsu) comes across the One Armed Swordsman, Wang Kang ( Jimmy Wang Yu ), who is in hiding and protecting a child from a corrupt Japanese priest and a group of yakuza.
Feb 18, 2019 · Towards the end of the series, Zatoichi even teams up with other famous screen swordsmen, squaring off against Toshiro Mifune in Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) and Jimmy Wang Yu in Zatoichi...
A sequel was released in 1969 called Return of the One-Armed Swordsman, followed by The New One-Armed Swordsman in 1971, all directed by Chang Cheh. It has since achieved classic status in Hong Kong cinema.
The 1969–70 Crimson Bat film series and its subsequent 1971 TV series were unauthorized variations, with a blind woman named O-Ichi, played by Yoko Matsuyama, as the sword-wielding hero. Blindman is a 1971 Spaghetti Western variation on the Zatoichi formula starring Tony Anthony as a blind gunman.
Tôru Abe. Boss Toubei. Page 1 of 5, 10 total items. Zatoichi meets Wang Kang, a Chinese swordsman protecting a brutally orphaned young child. Despite the language barrier, the men forge a...
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- Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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- Shintarô Katsu
This second Zatoichi film picks up the pace, featuring bigger action sequences, tighter plotting, and a mysterious one-armed swordsman played by star Shintaro Katsu’s brother Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf and Cub).
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Nov 25, 2013 · 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.