Shintaro Katsu
Zatôichi/Blind Man Ichi/Masseur Ichi
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- 1962 · Action · 1h 36m
The Tale of Zatoichi (Japanese: 座頭市物語, Hepburn: Zatōichi Monogatari) is a 1962 Japanese chanbara film directed by Kenji Misumi and based on the 1948 essay of the same name by Kan Shimozawa.
- Ikuo Kubodera
- Akira Ifukube
- 12 April 1962
- Daiei Motion Picture Company
The Tale of Zatoichi: Directed by Kenji Misumi. With Shintarô Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryûzô Shimada, Hajime Mitamura. The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.
- (5.6K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Kenji Misumi
- 1962-04-18
Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) is a blind samurai who becomes the masseur for a Yakuza boss, who hires him anticipating a battle with a rival gang. Zatoichi has few equals on the battlefield or in...
- (99)
- Shintarô Katsu
- Kenji Misumi
- Action, Adventure
The epic saga of Zatoichi begins. As tensions mount between rival yakuza clans, one boss hires a formidable but ailing ronin as his clan’s muscle—while the other employs a humble, moral blind masseur named Ichi.
- Zatoichi
With the third installment, New Tale of Zatoichi (1963), directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, Zatoichi comes alive for the first time in color! Right off the bat murderous assassins try to kill Zatoichi, but he shreds them all with lightning-fast strokes of his blade.
- Kenji Misumi
- Shintaro Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryuzo Shimada
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An impoverished blind masseur becomes a mercenary swordsman, to gain basic respect. The first of novelist Kan Shimozawa's Zatoichi series: 26 films, a TV series and a play, all but two starring controversial singer/producer/director Shintaro Katsu.
Directed by Kenji Misumi • 1962 • Japan. The epic saga of Zatoichi begins. As tensions mount between rival yakuza clans, one boss hires a formidable but ailing ronin as his clan’s muscle, while the other employs a humble, moral blind masseur named Ichi.
