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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo on DVD (1965)

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Average rating: 64%
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3.0
from 111 members
 
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Takizawa Osamu
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Studio: WARRIOR
Run time: 115 mins
Certificate: 12
User collections: Samurai Cinema
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Released: 18/06/2001

Brief synopsis of Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

A blind man returns to a village, of which he was once very fond. Upon his return however, he finds that things have changed considerably. There are two factions vying for power and people are getting killed... Japanese dialogue.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

This is one of the more engaging entries in the Blind Swordsman series, largely because director Kihachi Okamoto is so clearly attempting to duplicate the tone of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 classic Yojimbo. Shintaro Katsu again headlines as the one-time masseur who returns to his favourite village and finds it in the thrall of a ruthless merchant. The merchant's feud with his son has prompted the arrival of a couple of sinister samurai, Toshiro Mifune — secretly on a mission to recover the shogun's stolen gold — and sword for hire Shin Kishida. There's some explosive action, but also plenty of cerebral strategising.

Rating of 2 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Complex narrative of filial betrayal, high level theft, spies and gang warfare, with Toshiro Mifune adding additional weight as a drunken, penniless bodyguard who is spoiling for a fight with Zatoichi.

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Rated - 3 starsDecent

A customer from Cambridge , 17/05/2004

The plot is good (though not unlike Kurosawa's Yojimbo) Katsu and Mifune solid, but it is loosely directed and relies a little too much on what you already know about these 2 samurai heavyweights. Tries to dig deep into the characters, motivations, but doesn't quite reach far enough.

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Rated - 4 stars

A customer from ARMAGH , 30/09/2004

An excellent evenings amusement.

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Rated - 4 starsZatoichi strikes again

A customer from Puebla, Mexico , 08/01/2005

Originally when i saw this movie i thought to myself that it was sh@t.....okay not sh@t but not good the worst at least in the zatoichi films that i had already seen. The reason unfortunately was that in the other movies Zato is all powerful, all conquering and you know that he is going to succeed, thus the beauty of the movies as a existentialistic night of entertainment. It wasnt until i saw it again did i see its true beauty, as Katsu comes up against a comic hero in Jap cinema, Yojimbo. Fully entertainig and i think worth watching if not investing in-

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Rated - 4 starsnippon

A customer from london,england , 15/06/2005

superb movie, if you are into old calssic japaneses action movies.

excellent fight scenes and complementry direction by the director.

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Rated - 3 starsDecent

A customer from Cambridge , 17/05/2004

The plot is good (though not unlike Kurosawa's Yojimbo) Katsu and Mifune solid, but it is loosely directed and relies a little too much on what you already know about these 2 samurai heavyweights. Tries to dig deep into the characters, motivations, but doesn't quite reach far enough.

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Rated - 1 starsutter crap

blair the liar from london , 28/02/2006

dont know who said this was good, its wasnt, the fight scenes were terrible. This is the second and last time Im watching this zatoichi series,never again.Acting worse........didnt even watch the end, huge disappointment!

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