ZATOICHI, EPISODE 19: SAMARITAN ZATOICHI

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Martial Arts
• Plot: With 25 film sequels and upwards of 100 TV episodes. Shintaro Katsu is the legendary Zatoichi! He's a low-ranking blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and answers his foes with a deadly cane sword. By far, one of Japan's most time-honored screen personas, Zatoichi is, to this day, the ultimate everyman anti-hero.; ; In one of the most unusual films of the series, Zatoichi is hired to kill a man who owes a huge gambling debt to a yakuza boss. But the boss' true motives are exposed when the victim's sister, Osode, arrives with the money to pay back the debt, which she has acquired through prostitution. Realizing he has been tricked, Zatoichi vows to protect the young woman, and steps in to fight the gang boss for her honor. The result is a stunning display of violent swordplay that will appeal to any action plan.
• Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Yoshiko Mita, Makoto Satô, Kô Nishimura, Takuya Fujioka, Chôchô Miyako, Akira Shimizu, Ryoichi Tamagawa, Machiko Soga, Ryûtarô Gomi, Osamu Ôkawa, Rokko Toura, Kazue Tamaki, Yukio Horikita, Takeshi Date, Yasuhiro Minakami, Moto Kimura, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Kazuo Yamamoto, Akira Moroguchi, Takeshi Hamada, Jun Katsumura, Takeshi Yabuuchi, Teruko Ômi, Kenji Misumi, Kiyokata Saruwaka, Kan Shimozawa, Hisashi Sugiura, Tetsurô Yoshida
• Director: Kenji Misumi
• Runtime: 1:22
• Company: Daiei, Home Vision Entertainment, Janus Films
• Media Format: Movie