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Zatoichi At The Blood Fest review by A customer from Leeds

Blood Fest 30 January 2006
...This is the last of Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi movies. Unlike many samurai slashers this one takes it's time to establish Zatoichi's carachter and his relationship with his s... Read customer review

Shintaro Katsu - filmography

Roningai (1990)
Starring: Yoshio Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Kunie Tanaka
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
Certificate:

53% from 425 members
Currently unavailable

Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman on DVD (1989)
Starring: Kanako Higuchi, Takanori Jinnai, Ryuutaro Gan
Director: Shintaro Katsu
Certificate:
Further adventures of the much-loved blind masseuse cum sword Wielding killer of Japanese folklore - Zatoichi. Shintaro Katsu directs as well as stars in this 26th and final film of the visually-impaired yet otherwise sensually gifted sword master. By now graying at the temples yet still wandering ..read more »

68% from 255 members

Tokyo - The Last Megalopolis on DVD (1989)
Starring: Kyusaku Shimada, Shintaro Katsu, Mieko Harada
Director: Akio Jissoji
Certificate:
Feature film based on the popular Manga animated series 'Doomed Megalopolis'. Sleeping beneath Tokyo is a spirit of incredible power - the famed warrior Masakado. He has slept for 1000 years and now one man has tried to awaken the terrible beast with the aim of destroying Tokyo. However a female ..read more »

39% from 141 members

Zatoichi At The Blood Fest (1973)
Starring: Yukiyo Toake, Shintaro Katsu, Takashi Shimura
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Certificate:

63% from 274 members
Currently unavailable

Zatoichi In Desperation on DVD (1972)
Starring: Kiwako Taichi, Kyoko Yoshizawa, Shintaro Katsu
Director: Shintaro Katsu
Certificate:
The 24th instalment in Shintarô Katsu's Zatoichi vibrant series of samurai action films. Blind swordsman Zatoichi (Katsu) continues his epic journey. Zatoichi sets out to track down the daughter of an elderly woman whose death he unintentionally caused while negotiating a treacherous rope bridge. ..read more »

62% from 306 members

Ambush At Blood Pass (1970)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shintaro Katsu, Kinnosuke Nakamura
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Certificate:
Ronin Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune) is charged with travelling to Sanshu Pass, which was once a route used only by Japan's warlords but is now inhabited solely by outcasts, and wait for instructions. En route, Yojimbo rescues a young woman from an unhappy marriage, taking her with him on his journey. ..read more »

58% from 354 members
Currently unavailable

Zatoichi at the Fire Festival on DVD (1970)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Kenji Misumi
Certificate:

61% from 329 members

Zatoichi The Outlaw on DVD (1967)
Starring: Mikuni Rentaroo, Shintaro Katsu, Hamada Yunko
Director: Yamamoto Satsuo
Certificate:
Blind swordsman Zatoichi (Katsu Shintaro) becomes embroiled in gang warfare when he arrives in the peasant village of Kiyotaki. While gang boss Tamizo encourages the locals to gamble their way into poverty and starvation, his rival Asagoro champions the peasants, paying their debts personally and ..read more »

62% from 479 members

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage on DVD (1966)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Etsushi Takahashi, Hisaya Morishige
Director: Kazuo Mori
Certificate:
A girl is assaulted on the highway, and Zatoichi finds himself acting as midwife to a dying woman. Entrusted with the baby, he embarks on a mission to the village of Dashu to deliver the baby to the father.

63% from 345 members

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo on DVD (1965)
Starring: Ayako Wakao, Takizawa Osamu, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Certificate:
A blind man returns to a village, of which he was once very fond.He finds that things have changed considerably. There are two factions vying for power and people are getting killed.

62% from 734 members

The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Shigeru Amachi, Masayo Banri
Director: Kenji Misumi
Certificate:
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

65% from 4 members
Currently unavailable

Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman on DVD
Starring: Watako Hamaki, Shintaro Katsu, Michie Terada
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Certificate:

63% from 436 members

Hanzo The Razor (3 discs)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi, Yasuzo Masumura, Yoshio Inoue
Certificate:
Swordplay and sexploitation set to a 1970s funk soundtrack are the order of the day in this cult 1970s Japanese pinku trilogy. Shintaro Katsu stars as Hanzo 'The Razor' Itami, the incorruptible and uncompromising samurai cop who packs a weapon more devastating than any sword - just ask any of the ..read more »

61% from 159 members
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Shintaro Katsu facts

5 most recent films

Roningai - 2.5 stars
Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman - 3.5 stars
Tokyo - The Last Megalopolis - 2.0 stars
Zatoichi At The Blood Fest - 3.0 stars
Zatoichi In Desperation - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Zatoichi - The Blind Swordsman - 3.5 stars
Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman - 3.0 stars
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage - 3.0 stars
Zatoichi At The Blood Fest - 3.0 stars
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Tale of Zatoichi - 3.5 stars
Tokyo - The Last Megalopolis - 2.0 stars
Roningai - 2.5 stars
Ambush At Blood Pass - 3.0 stars
Hanzo The Razor - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kanako Higuchi - 2 times - show films
Kiwako Taichi - 2 times - show films
Ryuutaro Gan - 2 times - show films
Toyomi Kusano - 2 times - show films
Kyoko Yoshizawa - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kenji Misumi - 6 times - show films
Yasuzo Masumura - 4 times - show films
Yoshio Inoue - 4 times - show films
Kimiyoshi Yasuda - 2 times - show films
Yamamoto Satsuo - 1 times - show films

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