• 1974
  • 45m
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman

Summary Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs. View more details

  • 1974
  • 45m

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Shintarô Katsu Renji Ishibashi Keizô Kanie Shintarô Akatsuki

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Genres : Action Adventure Drama

Release date : Oct 2, 1974

Countries of origin : Japan

Language : Japanese

Production companies : Katsu Production

Summary Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Adventure Drama

Release date : Oct 2, 1974

Countries of origin : Japan

Language : Japanese

Production companies : Katsu Production

Photos

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
A Challenge of Chance
Two Bosses fight for control of a mine. Will Zatoichi takes sides? A man with a musket wants to end that threat.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
The Flower That Bloomed with the Lullaby
A young child falls under Zatoichi's care. As the child's secret origin is revealed, others become very interested in its fate.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
A Memorial Day and the Bell of Life
Due to an event in his past, Zatoichi won't draw his sword on a certain day every year. That day has arrived. His enemies, however, have no such restriction. Now he must try to survive the day.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
The Kannon Statue That Was Tied
A roadside statue of some significance needs to be moved. Its popularity means that there's lots of money to be made in its new location. Two different bosses want their territories to be its new home and they'll do anything to get it.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
The Heartless Man, Touched by Compassion
A ronin's sister has gone blind but can be cured if he's able to raise enough money within the next month.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Pouring Rain
Zatoichi is smitten by an older pretty woman, but she despises him for what he did to her brother. Zatoichi ends up pursuing her and ends up having to deal with a pimp who sells poor farmer's daughters to the local gang boss.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
A Bird Lands on Ichi
Zatoichi has been hired to help fight a war between two yakuza gangs, but they are stopped by a man who claims they can't fight because the land they are on is a bird and hunting ground.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
An Unforgettable Flower
Zatoichi meets a young woman named Okiku at a river trying to commit suicide by hanging. He rescues her from some gang members and end up traveling together. They stay at an inn and end up having feelings for each other.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
The Second Zatoichi
Another blind man impersonates Zatoichi while his female companion strings him along for her own benefit.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
The Sumo Wrestler Who Found His Home
Zatoichi comes across a former sumo wrestler who wants to be his gambling disciple and his purse suffers from trying to feed the wrestler. A planned sumo championship is derailed by local yakuza.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
The Whirlwind of Kisoji Mountain
One gang wants to kill Zatoichi. Another wants to get rid of the herb doctor who may interfere with their business. They hire a marksman to kill Zatoichi.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Humanity and Justice
Zatoichi meets a young woman disguised as a ronin on her quest to kill a yakuza boss. But the disguise doesn't fool the lecherous boss or his jealous wife. Zatoichi slaughters almost everyone.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
The 1,000 Ryo Raffle
Zatoichi meets a drunken ex-convict, who gives him a lottery ticket. The ex-con goes back to his village only to find his home life is not the way he left it.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Fighting Journey with Baby in Tow
Yakuza stab the passenger of a palanquin they believe is Zatoichi only to find it is a woman carrying a baby. Zatoichi undertakes to carry the baby to its father. On the way he enlists an unscrupulous woman to help take care of the baby.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
Festival Song of the Raven
Zatoichi spares an attacker who begs for his life. He gives him money, tells him to be an honest man, and says he will visit him at his shop. But the man is slain as soon as Zatoichi walks away.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
The Wind from Mount Akagi
Zatoichi finds his old boss Chuji whom he and others considered a god, but who has fallen from grace. Zatoichi tries to get him on the right path again.
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
Burning Sunset on the Bridal Pass
A hit man is hired to kill two men carrying a petition to Edo as Zatoichi is passing. The governor arrives at the wedding party of Zatoichi's hosts and inserts himself in the wedding ceremony uninvited. All is not as it seems.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
A Rush Trip
Zatoichi aids a criminal who has just murdered a boss and gets caught up in his messy affairs.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
A Rainbow Over My Homeland
It's the 3 year festival in Itabana and good food is in demand. Zatoichi's traveling companion recommends the restaurant Fukube, but the food doesn't measure up and he gives it a cutting review.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
A Female Boss and Her Wolves
The widow of a yakuza boss wants to go clean and for her son to get an honest job. But the rival clan under her adopted son is complicating her move.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
The Little Flower by the Lake
Zatoichi hears a couple expressing their undying devotion to each other. She sells herself into prostitution to pay her lover, Sentaro's debt. But Zatoichi's new prostitute companion is also waiting for Sentaro to come back.
Episode 22 • Dec 31, 1969
Song of the Father and Son
A little boy offers Zatoichi room in his parents' inn. But the patriarch gets a loan from a swindler with eyes on more than a simple loan repayment.
Episode 23 • Dec 31, 1969
Suicide Song of Lovers
A Goze (blind woman musician) is cast out of her association for falling in love with a man in violation of the Goze rules, but the man's family will not accept her.
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
The Coming of Spring
Zatoichi tries to help a spoiled rich girl who is traveling alone but she is ungrateful for all the things he does for her.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
Way of the Yakuza
After killing a yakuza boss, Zatoichi is stalked by his 2 remaining retainers. But all doesn't go as they planned.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Traveling Alone
Zatoichi returns to the home village that he left many years ago. The head priest there convinces him to end his violent ways and become a priest instead. Will his many enemies leave him in peace?
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