ZATOICHI: THE BLIND SWORDSMAN (MOVIE COL - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION (27 DISCS)-INC.

Details

• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Martial Arts
• Plot: The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This deluxe set features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.;
• Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Seizaburô Kawazu, Fujio Suga, Mieko Kondo, Chitose Maki, Tatsuo Endô, Gen Kimura, Kanae Kobayashi, Yutaka Nakamura, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Tokuzô Tanaka, Minoru Inuzuka, Kan Shimozawa
• Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
• Runtime: 36:44:00
• Company: Daiei Motion Picture Company, Home Vision
• Media Format: Movie