Zatoichi Meets The One-Armed Swordsman
– Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking..
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.
13 Jan 1971
Japanese, Mandarin
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Kan Shimozawa (story), Takayuki Yamada, Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Shintarô Katsu, Jimmy Wang Yu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada
While traveling the Japanese countryside the blind masseur Zatoichi comes across the One Armed Swordsman, Wang Kang, who is in hiding and protecting a child from a corrupt Japanese priest and a group of yakuza. Zatoichi and Wang Kang, each from very different worlds yet heroic swordsman in their own right, at first seem to get along but a language barrier and a series of misunderstanding leads Kang to distrust Ichi. Soon the two heroes are at each other throats while each attempts to stop the true villains from taking the child.
1 win.
Criterion Collection