Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman
A one-armed swordsman saves the life of a young boy sentenced to death for stopping an official procession. The local peasants however suffer in the aftermath as all are massacred.... Read more
| Starring | Shintaro Katsu, Yu Wang, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada |
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| Director | Kimiyoshi Yasuda |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema |
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Intriguing martial arts drama, notable for Shintaro Katsu's engaging performance and a narrative where a failure to communicate leads to tragedy.
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Don't listen to them: Zatoichi is great!
The print isn't good and the subtitles appear to have been written by someone who doesn't speak English but this is still a great film to watch. Worth making allowances for the dodgy ex-rental vhs which they used for the transfer to dvd.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Great stuff!
Takeshi Kitano's remake of Zatoichi last year gave the property a new lease of life. Delve into the archives and discover all these vintage gems. The One Armed Swordsman is undoubtedly one of the best in the series!
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Nothing special
Zaitocho is a blind Japanese gangster of exceptional fighting skill, due to his enhanced hearing. This is a somewhat slow-moving story in which he encounters a one-armed Chinese master swordsman. With much of the story taking place in darkness, and what seems to be a transfer from a poor print, it's difficult to see much of what's happening for much of the film. Mediocre.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman
Takeshi Kitano's remake of Zatoichi last year gave the property a new lease of life. Delve into the archives and discover all these vintage gems. The One Armed Swordsman is undoubtedly one of the best in the series!
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Not quite as good as Babycart.
Sometimes way too dark to see what's going on, the transfer to dvd just didn't quite make it worthwhile viewing.
Let's hope Takeshi's remake will be.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Don't listen to them: Zatoichi is great!
The print isn't good and the subtitles appear to have been written by someone who doesn't speak English but this is still a great film to watch. Worth making allowances for the dodgy ex-rental vhs which they used for the transfer to dvd.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Great stuff!
Takeshi Kitano's remake of Zatoichi last year gave the property a new lease of life. Delve into the archives and discover all these vintage gems. The One Armed Swordsman is undoubtedly one of the best in the series!
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Nothing special
Zaitocho is a blind Japanese gangster of exceptional fighting skill, due to his enhanced hearing. This is a somewhat slow-moving story in which he encounters a one-armed Chinese master swordsman. With much of the story taking place in darkness, and what seems to be a transfer from a poor print, it's difficult to see much of what's happening for much of the film. Mediocre.
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Not quite as good as Babycart.
Sometimes way too dark to see what's going on, the transfer to dvd just didn't quite make it worthwhile viewing.
Let's hope Takeshi's remake will be. -
A LOAD OF CRAP
ANOTHER ZATOICHI DVD THATS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME GIVE ME THE LONE WOLF ANYTIME
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So-so
A lesser entry in the Zatoichi series, mainly due to the typically inept performance from former Shaw Brothers legend (though I fail to see the attraction) Jimmy Wang Yu. He can't act and he can't fight. What use is he then? Simple. They could sell the film to Chinese-speaking territories and pretty much guarantee good business.
Much like all of Artsmagic's classic chambara films, like the Baby Cart series, the Zatoichi films suffer badly from a poor transfer. So many scenes in the various films are shot in the dark, but you can't actually see what's going on, because the screen's nearly pitch black. Can we have the remastered anamporphic versions available in America? That way we can watch the film on a widescreen TV and not have to either lose the subtitles, or watch a tiny picture with a giant black frame. -
Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman
Takeshi Kitano's remake of Zatoichi last year gave the property a new lease of life. Delve into the archives and discover all these vintage gems. The One Armed Swordsman is undoubtedly one of the best in the series!
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Aesop Japanese style
The moral message is given to you at the end: Because of language problems the Chinese and the Japanese don't understand each other and plugged throughout. Cinematography is average Hong Kong type, and the story premise is pretty average. It has a few funny moments like the hole in the rice paper window and the continued fart sequence, but other wise it's average hong kong type fayre.
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Intriguing martial arts drama, notable for Shintaro Katsu's engaging performance and a narrative where a failure to communicate leads to tragedy.
Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop
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Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman
A one-armed swordsman saves the life of a young boy sentenced to death for stopping an official procession. The local peasants however suffer in the aftermath as all are massacred.......
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