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Availability: In stock.
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Certificate: 
Run Time: 86 mins
Studio: ©1963, Home Vision
Release date: October 22nd, 2002.
Main Genre:
Foreign
Sub Genres:
Action/Adventure,
Japanese Cinema,
Martial Arts
Actors/Artists:
Matasaburo Niwa,
Reiko Fujiwara,
Ryuzo Shimada,
Shintaro Katsu,
Shosaku Sugiyama,
Sonosuke Sawamura
Director:
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Features:
- Production Stills
- Gallery of original stills
Aspect Ratio:
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Widescreen (Anamorphic) |
Audio:
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Subtitles:
English
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With 26 film sequels and upwards of 100 TV episodes, Shintaro Katsu is the legendary Zatoichi! He's a low ranking blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and answers his foes with a deadly cane sword. By far, one of Japanese cinema's most time honored screen personas, Zatoichi is, to this day, the ultimate anti-hero and champion of the common man.
Zatoichi is on the run from two deadly gangs in the fifth installment of the Blind Swordsman series. While traveling to a village where the local gang leader wants to hire him as a bodyguard, Ichi and his companion are attacked by a rival gang. After negotiating sage passage for himself, the blind masseur encounters a servant girl trying to escape after being raped by a feudal lord. Agreeing to help the girl get back to her family, Zatoichi realizes he'll have to take on both gangs to make it through.
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