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Zatoichi [2004]
VHS ~ 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano

(27 customer reviews)

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Product details

Actors: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
Directors: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
Format: PAL, Subtitled
Language Japanese
Classification:
Studio: Artificial Eye
VHS Release Date: 26 Jul 2004
Run Time: 111 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(27 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000296FSU
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19,585 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Takeshi "Beat" Kitano, the Japanese actor-director best known in the US for his quirky, ulraviolent gangster movies (Fireworks, Brother, Sonatine) and in the UK (among satellite and cable viewers, at least) for the bizarre It's a Knockout-meets-Endurance gameshow Takeshi's Castle, applies his off-kilter sensibility to the samurai genre in The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi. A blind masseur (Kitano with his hair dyed white) wanders into a small town divided up by rival gangs. Though hunched and shuffling, Zatoichi soon reveals his deadly skills as a swordsman. He befriends a pair of geisha girls with secrets of their own and helps them hunt down the bandits who killed their parents. But one of the gangs has just hired a ronin, a masterless samurai, whose fighting skill may equal the blind swordsman's.

Zatoichi mixes a melodramatic storyline, deadpan comedy, and dazzling, CGI-enhanced swordfights into a supremely entertaining package. In Japan, Zatoichi is a recurring character in popular action movies, but Kitano places his own unique stamp on the series. --Bret Fetzer

Synopsis
A retelling of the Zatoichi samurai epic. The blind master swordsman Zatoichi finds himself in a town in fear of a criminal gang.