- Format: Box set, PAL
- Language Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 4
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Rsk Artsmagic
- DVD Release Date: 20 Sep 2004
- Run Time: 396 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0002Z9WCA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 123,906 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Ignore the previous review, it doesn't matter that Pilgrimage is really Zatoichi at Large-it's actually the best
of the four films which is really saying something as they are all brilliant!
What I love about this series is they are funny as well as violent and sometimes quite dark. The pacing is just right
and like most Japanese genre films, the direction and cinematography of a very high quality.
of the four films which is really saying something as they are all brilliant!
What I love about this series is they are funny as well as violent and sometimes quite dark. The pacing is just right
and like most Japanese genre films, the direction and cinematography of a very high quality.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Having bought the first Zatoichi Box Set & enjoyed the films if not the quality of the prints I was eager to see his further adventures so bought this box set even though I already owned zatoichi meets yojimbo in a Toshiro Mifune Box set.
As with the first box set I have to say the quality of the picture is not great, this is a real pity as the films themselves are pretty good. Meets yojimbo & meets the one armed swordsman are cross over films, toshiro mifune is always good value as his yojimbo character to see him in the same film with katsu shintoro is fun. This is less so with the one armed swordsman as I had only seen him in one film other than this & most of the film is played on a series of mix up with the chinese warrior in japan.
The other two films very much follow the same pattern as the other 'Ichi' films where he helps out the downtrodden by killing most of the local gangsters or local official or sometimes both for good measure.
These films on the whole are good fun, for all the sword play they really are not that gory and dont dwell on it,they were probably a lot more shocking in the past than now.
I came to Zatoichi in reverse having seen Beat Takeshi's version a few years ago, I am glad on the whole I did, only wish then quality of the discs were better as especially with ..meets the one armed swordsman it really was a struggle to see what was going on.
As with the first box set I have to say the quality of the picture is not great, this is a real pity as the films themselves are pretty good. Meets yojimbo & meets the one armed swordsman are cross over films, toshiro mifune is always good value as his yojimbo character to see him in the same film with katsu shintoro is fun. This is less so with the one armed swordsman as I had only seen him in one film other than this & most of the film is played on a series of mix up with the chinese warrior in japan.
The other two films very much follow the same pattern as the other 'Ichi' films where he helps out the downtrodden by killing most of the local gangsters or local official or sometimes both for good measure.
These films on the whole are good fun, for all the sword play they really are not that gory and dont dwell on it,they were probably a lot more shocking in the past than now.
I came to Zatoichi in reverse having seen Beat Takeshi's version a few years ago, I am glad on the whole I did, only wish then quality of the discs were better as especially with ..meets the one armed swordsman it really was a struggle to see what was going on.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I love the Zatoichi series and only had one gap in my collection - Zatoichi's Pilrimage, which is advertised as being part of this box set. That is not true! The Zatoichi's Pilgrimage disc actually contains Zatoichi At Large (1974) - not the advertised film! I'm very unhappy about this and you would be too if you bought this box set. Yet more incompetence from UK distributors Artsmagic...
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