Release Date: Dec 18, 1970 Wide
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The growly voiced sword star Shintaro Katsu was so well known for playing Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman, that it's doubly amazing to see him acting mostly with his glistening black-marble eyes in this 1970 samurai suspense drama directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (Samurai Trilogy). The nominal star, Toshiro Mifune, who also produced, appears for the fourth and last time as the nameless wandering assassin he first portrayed in Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. (The third was another collaboration with Katsu,
Unrated, 1 hr. 58 min.
Dec 18, 1970 Wide
Mar 8, 2005
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Terrific plotting, marvelous music and Toshiro Mifune.
one of mifune's portrayals of the character yojimbo. certainly not as good as the versions directed by kurosawa, but mifune obviously knows this character. this is a solid film with a great and unexpected twist.
February 18, 2007
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(*** 1/2): Thumbs Up
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