Starpulse.com 

Home > Movies > Z > Zatoichi

MPAA Rating: R
Director: Beat Takeshi Kitano
Genre: Martial Arts, Samurai Film, Action
Release Date: July 23, 2004 (USA
Rating:

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 >>

Photo Gallery:

View All Pictures >>

Cast:
Beat Takeshi Kitano - (Zatôichi/Ichi)
Tadanobu Asano - (Gennosuke Hattori)
Michiyo Okusa - (Aunt Oume)
Yui Natsukawa - (Oshino)
Guadalcanal Taka - (Shinkichi)
All Cast & Crew >>

Review:
Beat Takeshi Kitano's Zatôichi is an artfully crowd-pleasing riff on the samurai action film. Continue >>

Similar Movies:
2007 Love and Honor
1972 Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1961 Yojimbo
More Similar Movies >>


Browse More Movies:
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z