Films like Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-fil...
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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Film · 1971 · also action and adventureZatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty part...
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Film · 1965 · also action and adventureZatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhil...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Film · 1966 · also action and adventureZatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Film · 1965 · also action and adventureItinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbe...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
Film · 1968 · also action and adventureZatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay h...
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Film · 1965 · also action and adventureBlind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is r...
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Zatoichi Challenged
Film · 1967 · also action and adventureIchi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi f...
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Zatoichi the Fugitive
Film · 1963 · also action and adventureAfter arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying...
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Film · 1964 · also action and adventureBlind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels furth...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Film · 1989 · also action and adventureOlder, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggl...
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