"ZATOICHI, EPISODE 5: ON THE ROAD (WIDESCREEN) [SUBTITLED] "

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Foreign, Martial Arts
• Plot: With 26 film sequels and updwards 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 Japanese cinema's most time-honored screen personas. Zatoichi is, to this day, the ultimate anti-hero and champion of the common man.; ; Zatoichi helps a girl escape a lascivious feudal lord and two deadly yakuza gangs in the fifth installment of the Blind Swordsman series. While travelling to a village where the local gang leader wants to hire him as a bodyguard, Ichi an his companion are attacked by a rival gang. After negotiating safe passage for himself, the blind masseur encounters a servant girl trying to escape after being raped by a feudal lord. Agreeing to help the girl get back to her family, Zatoichi realizes he'll have to take on both gangs to make it through.
• Cast: Shintarô Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Ryûzô Shimada, Reiko Fujiwara, Matasaburo Niwa, Yoshio Yoshida, Sônosuke Sawamura, Shôsaku Sugiyama, Yutaka Nakamura, Gen Kimura, Teruko Ômi, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Minoru Inuzuka, Kan Shimozawa
• Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Home Vision Entertainment, Janus Films, Daiei
• Media Format: Movie