Zatoichi Monogatari: The Blind Swordsman TV Series Season 1 Episode18: A Rush Trip (1974)
Staring: Shintarô Katsu as Zatoichi
Zatoichi aids a criminal who has just murdered a boss and gets caught up in his messy affairs.
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The itinerant Zatoichi comes across a dying man, who begs the masseur to escort a young woman back to her family in Edo. The honorable swordsman agrees, but in so doing, he catapults himself between two warring yakuza clans, each with its own interest in kidnapping the girl. Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda and starring Shintaro Katsu. #zatoichi #shintarokatsu
Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this second house’s seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. The sixteenth Zatoichi film is the first effort from its star’s own Katsu Productions, and it is one of the series’ most daring, with its complex characters, subversive social themes, and moral outrage. Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and starring Shintaro Katsu. #zatoichi #shintarokatsu
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusu
Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatoichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs, and helps two geishas take revenge on the men who murdered their parents. His mission leads him to a final, bloody confrontation with the gang's mastermind and his hired assassin (Tadanobu Asano), a swordsman with a reputation as lethal as Zatoichi.
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Lone Wolf and Cub Season 1 Episode 19 (1973) Half Mat, One Mat, Two And A Half Go Of Rice, Starring Kinnosuke Nakamura as Ittô Ogami
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Kozure ôkami Japanese Jidaigeki TV Series (1973-1976) Master Swordsman Ogami Itto held the honorable position as the Shogun's executioner. When rivals kill his wife and handmaidens, it is initially believed that it was to avenge a clan lord's execution. However, the ghastly deed was designed by the envious Yagyu Retsudo to disgrace and frame Ogami in the eyes of the Shogun, giving him criminal status and forcing him to forfeit his lofty post. With his surviving one-year-old son, Daigoro, Ogami sets off to live as an assassin-for-hire until he can locate and exact revenge upon the Yagyu clan.
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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman S04E18, Dogs and Traveling Companions (1979), English Subtitles
Zatoichi adopts a dog or rather the dog adopts him. When the dog is injured he takes it to a veterinarian who happens to be treating a young man who felt the edge of Zatoichi's sword.
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The film that inspired the Zatoichi Series. The Blind Menace is a fine and memorable film in its own right, though its true historic significance in Japanese cinema is that it formed the foundation for Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi. The story goes that Katsu's budding career as a young star for Daiei Studios was struggling through the late 1950s. He lacked the handsome matinee idol appeal of his contemporary Raizo Ichikawa, and audiences weren't loving his efforts to play the heroic leading man. Then Katsu discovered an offbeat script about a wily blind masseur, adapted from a stage production, and somehow he knew this was the role for him.
But this is by no means the long-lost first introduction of our beloved Zatoichi. Fans expecting to see Katsu here as the humble and kind-hearted sightless masseuse will be in for a major shock. This character is Ichi's evil twin, a complete and utter bastard. Suganoichi is a con artist, thief, extortionist, loan shark, murderer and rapist, thoroughly remorseless and despicable. Further diverging from Zatoichi, this character lacks the amazing sword skills, more realistically relying solely on his wits and deception to make his way through a society where the blind were among the lowest outcasts.
Starring: KATSU Shintaro, NAKAMURA Tamao, KONDO Mieko #shintarokatsu #shiranuikengyo
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman S02E13, Ichi Runs for a Mother's Tears (1976), English Subtitles
Zatoichi escorts an old woman into a village overrun with bounty hunters seeking a fugitive hiding nearby. Despite Zatoichi's desire to leave immediately, the old woman insists on staying.
Lone Wolf and Cub Season 1 Episode 10 (1973) Six Roads to Infinity (Six Realms of Hell), Staring Kinnosuke Nakamura as Ittô Ogami
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Kozure ôkami Japanese Jidaigeki TV Series (1973-1976) Master Swordsman Ogami Itto held the honorable position as the Shogun's executioner. When rivals kill his wife and handmaidens, it is initially believed that it was to avenge a clan lord's execution. However, the ghastly deed was designed by the envious Yagyu Retsudo to disgrace and frame Ogami in the eyes of the Shogun, giving him criminal status and forcing him to forfeit his lofty post. With his surviving one-year-old son, Daigoro, Ogami sets off to live as an assassin-for-hire until he can locate and exact revenge upon the Yagyu clan.
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