The geishas end up befriending the blind swordsman. At one point, Zatoichi pisses off the gamblers at the gambling den he and Shinkichi frequent so he slices up the lot of them and discovers himself ...

STONE-FACED Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano blurs the line between insanity and genius with “The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi,” his sublimely syncopated reimagining of the popular samurai movie series ...

Nobody can make you like this stuff if you don't want to. So although there's no doubt that "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi" is the summer's most rousing action picture, it's also hard as nails, bloody ...

“The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi,” the latest entertainment from Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, isn’t your average blind masseur-gambler-swordsman movie. Based on a series of popular genre standards ...

What separates “Zatoichi” from other swordfight movies is that the eponymous hero, played, of course, by Kitano himself, is blind. Like the many other directors of films featuring this well-known ...

I enjoyed it! It`s not your typical samurai flick - there was a lot of sword-play and a lot of humour. It appeared as if some of the blood was added in as CGI. June 11, 2004 The Blind Swordsman was ...

Like their American counterparts, Japanese movie lovers have long embraced recurring characters and storylines. But their film franchises reached a peak in the 1960s and '70s. At that time, series in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The blind swordsman Zatoichi is to Japanese cinema what James Bond is to American cinema: an ...

The great Bruce Lee twirled his limbs around with such fearsome speed and control that he seemed to be slicing through time itself. His whirling, precision chop kills weren’t just fast — they were ...

Depending on who you ask, the name Takeshi "Beat" Kitano will evoke different responses. There are those who grew up on Japanese television and know him for his slapstick humor, painted-on mustaches, ...