Shintarô Katsu

Gen Kimura

Kyôko Higashiyama

Toshio Chiba

Samurai Vendetta

Samurai Vendetta (1959)

Michiko Tsukasa

Kô Nishimura

Mikio Narita

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Renji Ishibashi

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)

Toshio Kurosawa

Kei Satô

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

Kunie Tanaka

Michiyo Yasuda

Hisashi Igawa

Ichi seeks out on a pilgrimage to 81 temples, exploring spirituality to atone for his bloody past. On the way, Ichi stumbles into a village that's being bullied by a violent Yakuza boss and his henchmen. After killing a young, hired assassin, Ichi is led back to the young man's village by his peculiar horse. Upon learning that her brother is dead, Okichi (Yasuda Michiyo) grabs a sword and attacks Ichi, either in an attempt to avenge her brother or in an attempt to commit suicide by forcing Ichi to defend himself. After injuring Ichi, Okichi tends to his wounds, nurses him back to health, and begins to have feelings for him. The Yakuza boss still wants Ichi dead in order to take over the village and now Ichi alone must deal with the boss and his gang, the young woman's feelings and a village full of cowards, who will not stand up for themselves!—Jesus

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)

Rentarô Mikuni

Hisaya Morishige

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her fate.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi at Large

Zatoichi at Large (1972)

Jôji Takagi

Katsuo Nakamura

Hideji Ôtaki

Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director's chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. A tale of innocence corrupted by sadistic, sleazy criminality, the film is propelled by Easy Rider-esque editing and a trippy seventies funk score by Kunihiko Murai.—Anonymous

Zatoichi in Desperation

Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)

Takashi Shimura

Eiji Okada

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)

Kichijirô Ueda

Miwa Takada

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.—Jim Beaver

Adventures of Zatoichi

Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)

Norihei Miki

Takeshi Katô

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.—

Zatoichi's Revenge

Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)

Shigeru Amachi

Jun Hamamura

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.—Fred Cabral

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

Yumiko Nogawa

Kazuo Yamamoto

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi becomes involved with a gang of bandits hiding out in a small village. While they hide in the attic of a silk mill, they manipulate the corrupt chief official of the town. Simultaneously Zatoichi tries to rescue a young woman from the sweatshop conditions of the mill. Eventually he must confront not only the leaders of the town but the outlaw gang in battle.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi and the Fugitives

Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)

Kenjirô Ishiyama

Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this house's seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. The sixteenth Zatoichi film is the first from its star's own Katsu Productions, and is one of the series' most daring.—Anonymous

Zatoichi the Outlaw

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

Sachiko Murase

Kanbi Fujiyama

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)

Eitarô Ozawa

Takao Ito

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save tha man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town—Scott Hamilton

Zatoichi Challenged

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

Ryô Horikawa

Gaku Yamamoto

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning...—eirias

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

Yutaka Nakamura

Koh Sugita

Mayumi Nagisa

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)

Jimmy Wang Yu

Tôru Abe

Takamaru Sasaki

While traveling the Japanese countryside the blind masseur Zatoichi comes across the One Armed Swordsman, Wang Kang, who is in hiding and protecting a child from a corrupt Japanese priest and a group of yakuza. Zatoichi and Wang Kang, each from very different worlds yet heroic swordsman in their own right, at first seem to get along but a language barrier and a series of misunderstanding leads Kang to distrust Ichi. Soon the two heroes are at each other throats while each attempts to stop the true villains from taking the child.—Daniel Jos. Leary

Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman

Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)

Tomisaburô Wakayama

Ichirô Takakura

Shinjirô Asano

In the 1840s, Ichi, blind masseur and quick-draw swordsman, travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years' ago. The villages in the area, after several years of famine, have struggled to raise 1,000 ryo in taxes they owe. The money is stolen while in transit to the governor. Ichi is accused as is Boss Chuji, a samurai Ichi respects. Ichi sets out to find the money and clear his own and Chuji's names. Along the way, he must face Kichizo's sister, some of Chuji's own gang, a corrupt governor, and his henchmen. Loyalties shift even as Ichi's moral compass stays true.—

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)

Nobuo Kaneko

Shôsaku Sugiyama

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.—Jim Beaver

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)

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