His Sword Made Him a Hero… His Courage Made Him a Legend. This Summer, Justice is Blind.

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to an town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda. Read actual review on next page.

Zatoichi is the updated version of cult Japanese show some decades back.Here a blind swordsman goes to a small town controlled by a ruthless gang and abuses the people there. There he meets many characters like the siblings on a mission, a samurai who is hired by the gang, as well as an unlucky gambler who befriends the blind swordsman.

This is the first ever Takeshi Kitano film I have ever seen and I got to say it turned out to be a rather pleasant surprise. Prior to this I have heard so much about Kitano’s work and was really expecting to see a really good film. Add to that every samurai film I see normally gets compared to Kurosawa’s works like Rashomon, and Ran which of course are tough acts to follow. I thought the film was well made in many aspects. The cinematography was really beautiful and well made. The costumes like most period films were finely crafted and were beautiful. The scoring was also very good.

The fight scenes in this film were also well planned and I though it was done realistically but not necessarily done to shock the audiences with bucket loads of blood and mangled body parts. It was effective but not too disturbing.

Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi is a great film which now ranks as one of my and hopefully it will be to other people. I’m already anticipating the next film from this great film and will also look for some of his earlier works.

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