Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
– This 26th film installment of the Zatoichi series sees Shintaro Katsu return to this classic role af..
This 26th film installment of the Zatoichi series sees Shintaro Katsu return to this classic role after a 10 year hiatus. The blind masseur Ichi gets caught between rival Yakuza clans.
04 Feb 1989
Japanese
Shintarô Katsu
Tatsumi Ichiyama (screenplay), Shintarô Katsu (screenplay), Tsutomu Nakamura (screenplay), Kyôhei Nakaoka (adaptation), Kan Shimozawa (story)
Shintarô Katsu, Kanako Higuchi, Takanori Jinnai, Ryûtarô Gan
Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into these injustices uncovers a corrupt alliance between government officials and criminals, putting the blind swordsman on a bloody path of retribution in one of the series' darkest entries.
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