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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Beat Takeshi Kitano
Genre: Martial Arts, Samurai Film, Action
Release Date: July 23, 2004 (USA
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Summary:
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 '60s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatôichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs, and helps two geishas take revenge on the ... Full Summary >>

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Beat Takeshi Kitano - (Zatôichi/Ichi)
Tadanobu Asano - (Gennosuke Hattori)
Michiyo Okusa - (Aunt Oume)
Yui Natsukawa - (Oshino)
Guadalcanal Taka - (Shinkichi)
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Review:
Beat Takeshi Kitano's Zatôichi is an artfully crowd-pleasing riff on the samurai action film. Zatôichi , the beloved hero of a long-running series of genre flicks (which still play regularly on A ... Continue >>

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