Year: 1962
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,7 (NEVAZUT)
Country: Japan
Language:
Director: Kenji Misumi
Writer: Minoru Inuzuka, Kan Shimozawa
Composer: Akira Ifukube
Producer: Ikuo Kubodera
Actors: Shintarô Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryûzô Shimada, Hajime Mitamura, Shigeru Amachi, Michirô Minami, Eijirô Yanagi, Toshio Chiba, Manabu Morita, Yoshindo Yamaji, Yôichi Funaki, Eigorô Onoe, Ikuko Môri, Chitose Maki, Kin'ya Ichikawa, Jun Fujikawa, Yukio Horikita, Yûji Hamada, Bonta Maru, Gen Kimura, Takaji Fukui, Hajime Koshikawa, Hiroyoshi Nishioka, Kanae Kobayashi, Akira Shiga, Kôichi Aihara, Noboru Taniguchi, Shingo Hosoya, Taizô Sengoku, Saburô Nagaoka, Katsuyoshi Baba, Kaname Yûki, Takashi Teramura, Keiko Awanami, Masayoshi Kikuno
Description: An impoverished blind masseur becomes a mercenary swordsman, to gain basic respect. The first of novelist Kan Shimozawa's Zatoichi series: 26 films, a TV series and a play, all but two starring controversial singer/producer/director Shintaro Katsu. First of six Zatoichi films directed by Kenji Misumi. The shrewd Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighboring town's smaller gang is brewing. The broke ex-masseur "Ichi" immediately wins big, by taking advantage of local bakuto's cheating, after they scoff at his asking to join a dice game. The larger horde, who have been given carte blanche by the local governor, summoned Zatoichi. Zatoichi hates the fact that he's become an outlaw, so he strikes up a friendship with the other gang's honorable hired samurai, who has TB.
Comments:
Duration: 96 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02641 - Tale of Zatoichi (1962)\[01].avi
Filesize: 698 MB
Video: DivX 4 - resolution: 640x272
Audio:
Subtitles: English, Multi idx/sub, Serbian