Zatoichi (2003)

Synopsis: Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular blind swordsman of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from... Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular blind swordsman of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early 1960s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatoichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs and helps two geishas take revenge on the men who murdered their parents. His mission leads him to a final, bloody confrontation with the gang's mastermind and his hired assassin (Tadanobu Asano), a swordsman with a reputation as lethal as Zatoichi. [More]

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusa, Yui Natsukawa

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusa, Yui Natsukawa, Guadalcanal Taka

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Story: Kan Shimozawa
Composer: Keiichi Suzuki

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