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Shintarō Katsu

Masayo Banri

Ryûzô Shimada

Hajime Mitamura

Shigeru Amachi

Michirô Minami

Eijirō Yanagi

Toshio Chiba

Manabu Morita

Yoshito Yamaji

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

Kenji Misumi

The Tale of Zatoichi

Aj Murray

Black Belt Cinema: THE TALE OF ZATOICHI (1962) Trailer

Minoru Inuzuka

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Yoshie Mizutani

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Yutaka Nakamura

Sonosuke Sawamura

Shôsaku Sugiyama

Fujio Harumoto

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

Kazuo Mori

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

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Mikiko Tsubouchi

Seizaburō Kawazu

Fujio Suga

Mieko Kondō

Tatsuo Endō

Gen Kimura

Chitose Maki

Kanae Kobayashi

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Tokuzō Tanaka

New Tale of Zatoichi

Kikuo Umebayashi

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Miwa Takada

Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Jun'ichirô Narita

Tōru Abe

San'emon Arashi

Yūji Hamada

Sumao Ishihara

Jun Katsumura

After 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 of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

Zatoichi the Fugitive

Seiji Hoshikawa

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Shiho Fujimura

Reiko Fujiwara

Matasaburô Niwa

Yoshio Yoshida

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Zatoichi on the Road

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Shōgo Shimada

Machiko Hasegawa

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Hikosaburo Kataoka

Shinjirô Asano

Saburo Date

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

Kazuo Ikehiro

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

Shozaburo Asai

Akikazu Ota

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Bokuzen Hidari

Ryōsuke Kagawa

Naoko Kubo

Mayumi Nagasi

Takashi Etajima

Ryūtarō Gomi

Ikuko Mōri

Blind 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 further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword

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Nobuo Kaneko

Hizuru Takachiho

Yoshi Katō

Kōji Fujiyama

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Masaatsu Matusmura

Tetsurō Yoshida

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Eiko Taki

Kichijirô Ueda

Daimaru Nakata

Mikijirō Hira

Akitake Kôno

Kōichi Mizuhara

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

Adventures of Zatoichi

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Norihei Miki

Takeshi Katō

Sachiko Kobayashi

Itinerant 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 robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.

Akira Inoue

Zatoichi's Revenge

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Kanbi Fujiyama

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Yukio Horikita

Hajime Koshikawa

Sachiko Murase

Tokio Oki

Masako Myojo

Blind 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 reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

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Mikio Narita

Kaneko Iwasaki

Gaku Yamamoto

Takuya Fujioka

Ryou Horikawa

Rokkō Toura

Zatoichi 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. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Daisuke Itō

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Jun Hamamura

Mayumi Ogawa

Kei Satō

Michi Azuma

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Hajime Takaiwa

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Michiyo Yasuda

Kunie Tanaka

Hisashi Igawa

Masao Mishima

Jōtarō Senba

Isao Yamagata

Yoichi Funaki

Zatoichi'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.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

Kaneto Shindō

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Yoshihiko Aoyama

Makoto Fujita

Kiyoko Suizenji

Eijirō Tōno

Masumi Harukawa

Junichiro Yamashita

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

Ryōzō Kasahara

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Rentaro Mikuni

Kō Nishimura

Yûko Hamada

Toshiyuki Hosokawa

Mizuho Suzuki

Kayo Mikimoto

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Satsuo Yamamoto

Zatoichi the Outlaw

Takehiro Nakajima

Koji Matsumoto

Kiyokata Saruwaka

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Jūshirō Konoe

Yukiji Asaoka

Mie Nakao

Takao Ito

Asao Koike

Midori Isomura

Tatsuo Matsumura

Ichi 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 finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

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Kyōsuke Machida

Takashi Shimura

Hōsei Komatsu

Shōzō Nanbu

Seishirō Hara

Yumiko Nogawa

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Zatoichi and the Fugitives

Kinya Naoi

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Yoshiko Mita

Makoto Satō

Chōchō Miyako

Akira Shimizu

Ryoichi Tamagawa

Machiko Soga

Zatoichi 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 his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.

Samaritan Zatoichi

Hisashi Sugiura

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Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo