Zatôichi
115 minutes,
Japan (2003), 18
Average user rating 
(4.8 / 50 votes)
(4.8 / 50 votes)
Period drama from 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano. A blind master swordsman and a desperate ronin get involved in a gang conflict in 19th century rural Japan
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Zatôichi: Zatôichi is a good-natured homage to the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, and connects neatly with that cinematic sub-genre of the taciturn wanderer who is a master fighter. Kurosawa's Yojimbo featured the Man With No Name, who provided the model for Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy; the character Zatôichi (Kitano) conforms to a similar type, being known throughout simply as "the masseur"...
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