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Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)86 minAction, Adventure, DramaRating 66/100

The blind swordsman wanders into a town to celebrate the New Year. There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to help her find him, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption and a series of tragic twists of fate. Returning director Kimiyoshi Yasuda and screenwriter Shozaburo Asai masterfully weave together a variety of narrative threads and tonal registers, all while playfully tweaking the conventions and motifs of the series.

Cast: Shintarō Katsu, Miwa Takada, Eiko Taki, Kichijirō Ueda, Daimaru Nakata, Mikijiro Hira, Gen Kimura

Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda