Zatoichi
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Ichi
den blinde massören
och svärdsmannen |
Populäraste
filmsamuraj i Japan är Ichi, den blinde massören vars öden
och äventyr kan
följas i Zatoichi serien om 26 filmer och en TV-serie. Ichi driver,
som Itto i Baby Cart-serien,
runt på landsbygden i 1800-talets början där han ingriper
med sitt svärd mot de onda och
använder då sin överlägsna hörsel, list och blixtrande
teknik |
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The first film in the legendary series
where Ichi finds himself in a battle
between gangs of yakuza, and finds
a worthy opponent ... finally
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The
Tale of Zatoichi (Zatoichi Monogatari/The Life
and Opinion of Masseur Ichi)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1962
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Masayo Mari, Ryuzo Shimada
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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The 2nd film where Ichi gets to know the
the secret of a clan leader, and with a
final battle against the one-armed samurai
Tomisaburo Wakayama
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The
Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoicho Monogatari/
Return of Masseur Ichi)
Direction : Kazuo Mori, production: 1962
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Masayo Banri, Tomisaburo Wakayama
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, b&w, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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In the third Zatoichi vehicle Ichi returns
to his home village and finds out that his
Master has got involved with bandits.
The first entry in the series made in color |
New
Tale of Zatoichi (Shin Zatoichi Monogatari/Masseur
Ichi Enters Again)
Direction: Tokuzo Tanaka, production: 1963
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Seizaburo Kawasu, Mikiko Tsubochi
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Zatoich has got a price on his head and
is attacked by a horde of bandits and by
a powerful samurai
The 4th entry in the series |
The
Fugitive (Kyojo Tabi/Masseur Ichi, the Fugitive)
Direction: Tokuzo Tanaka, production: 1963
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Miwa Takada, Masayo Banri
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi has promised to escort a young
woman to safety and gets into fights
with different bands of bandits
A very good 5th part of the series
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On
the Road (Kenka Tabi/Masseur Ichi on the Road)
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1963
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Ryuzo Shimada
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Poor villagers are robbed of their tax
money and when Ichi is suspected he
has to take the fight against a corrupted
and evil lord. Part 6 of the film series |
Zatoichi
and the Chest of Gold (Zatoichi Senryo Kubi/
Masseur Ichi and a
Chest of Gold)
Direction: Kazuo Ikehiro, produktion: 1964
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Shogo Shimada, Tomisaburo Wakayama
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Zatoichi helps the good clan leader
Bunkichi against the evil one,
Yasugoro. Part 7 of the film series
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Zatoichi's
Flashing Sword (Zatoichi Abare Dako)
Direction: Kazuo Ikehiro, production:1964
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuo Endo, Takashi Etajima
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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At a deadly assault against Zatoichi
the mother of a baby child is killed
and Ichi promises to protect the child
and hand it over to it's father. Part 8
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Fight
Zatoichi, Fight (Zatoichi Kessho Tabi)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1964
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Nobuo Kaneko
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Part 9 of the legendary film saga about
the blind masseur and swordsman.
With trailers, infosheet and a cool poster
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Adventures
of Zatoichi (Zatoichi Sekisho Yaburi/ Adventures
of a Blind Man)
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1964
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Nobuo Kaneko
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
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In part 10 Ichi helps womenwho has been
forced into prostitution, and avenge the
death of his master.
With a poster and an info sheet |
Zatoichi's
Revenge (Zatoichi Nidan-Giri
Direction: Akira Inoue, production: 1965
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Norihei Miki, Takeshi Kato
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
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The 11th film in the Zatoichi series
where Ichi helps an innocent man who
has been sentenced to death
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Zatoichi
and the Doomed Man (Zatoichi Sakate-Giri)
Direction: Kazuo Mori, production: 1965
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Kanbi Fujiyama, Kenjiro Ishiyama
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Zatoichi meets a samurai obsessed with
chess and helps a girl who has been
injured by a sword. 12th in the series
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Zatoichi and
the Chess Expert (Zatoichi Jigoku Tabi)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1965
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizuru Hayashi
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi promises a dying man to bring some
money to his son, meets a blind monk
and questions his way of living (in The
Path of Blood). Part 13 of the series
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Zatoichi's
Vengeance (Zatoichi No Uta Ga Kikoeru)
Direction: Tokuzo Tanaka, production: 1966
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Shigeru Amachi,Mayumi Ogawa
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi decides to rid a harassed city
from yakuza slime, and we get to know
about the history of his cane-sword.
käppsvärds historia. Comes with
a poster
and is the 15th in the film series
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Zatoichi's
Cane Sword (Zatoichi Tekka Tabi)
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1967
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Yoshihiko Aoyama
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi is involved in the battle between 2
gambling houses in this, the 16th entry
of the film saga about the wandering
samurai
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Zatoichi
The Outlaw (Blind Swordsman's Rescue)
Direction: Satsuo Yamamoto, production: 1967
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Mikuni Rentaro, Ko Nishimura
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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In part 17 a dying woman begs Ichi to
bring her son to the father. A man that
Zatoichi finds out to be a gangster
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Zatoichi
Challenged! (Zatoichi Chikemuri Kaido)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1967
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Jushiro Konoe, Miwa Takada
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Zatoichi möter gangsters som
styr en by tillsammans med
en korrupt polis och tvingar kvinnor till bordellarbete.
18e filmen i serien |
Zatoichi
& the Fugitives (Zatoichi Hatashi Jo)
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1968
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Kayo Mikimoto, Kyosuke Mashida
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi is hired by a yakuza boss to commit
a murder, but turns the enemy of the boss
when he protects a helpless woman
Part 19 of the series
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Samaritan
Zatoichi (Zatoichi Kenka-Daiko)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production 1968
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Yoshiko Mita, Makoto Sato
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
1
US Home Vision Entertainment DVD edition |
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Ichi meets the yojimbo, Daisaku (played
by screen legend Toshiro Mifune) in a
village ruled by the evil Kobotoke clan.
A nice info sheet included and part 20
in the Zatoichi series
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Zatoichi
Meets Yojimbo (Zatoichi to Yojimbo)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1970
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Osamu Takizawa
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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In part 21 of the film series, and yet again
directed by Kenji Misumi, Ichi finds him-
self in deadly danger in a town ruled by
yakuzas
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Zatoichi:
The Festival of Fire (Blind Swordsman's Fire
Festival)
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1970
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ohara
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Classic 22nd entry in the legendary film
saga where Ichi takes care of a chinese
boy and meets an one-armed master.
With Jimmy Wang
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Zatoichi
Meets the One-armed Swordsman (Blind Swordsman
Meets
His Equal/Zatoichi vs. the One-armed Swordsman)
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1971
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Jimmy Wang, Hama Yuko, Abe Toru
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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In part 23 of the series Ichi helps a dying
woman with her baby, and yet again takes
the battle against slimey bad yakuza guys
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Zatoichi at
Large
Direction: Kazuo Mori, production: 1972
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Naoko Otani, Hisaya Morishige
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
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US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Ichi causes the death of a woman, and
buys the freedom of the daughter from
prostitution. An entry dark in tone and
the 1st film Katsu directed himself.
The 24th film in the series
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Zatoichi
in Desperation
Direction: Shintaro Katsu, production: 1972
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Asao Koike, Kyoko Yoshizawa
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Zatoichi visits his home village and gets
into a conflict with his childhood friend
Shinbei. The 25th and next to last entry
in the legendary film series
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Zatoichi's
Conspiracy
Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, production: 1973
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Yukijo Toake, Takashi Shimura
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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The Powerful and Magnificent 26th film
ended the series, the epic film saga about
Zatoichi. Directed by Katsu himself it's
dark and pensive. Impressive exit by Ichi |
Zatoichi
Direction: Shintaro Katsu, production: 1989
Cast: Shintaro Katsu, Ken Ogata, Yuja Uchida
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US Media Blasters DVD edition |
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The delightfully bizarre and somewhat
sleazy Hanzo film series, with 3 entries
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Som ett avbrott i Zatoichiserien och ett bi-projekt till
sin Zatoichi- och senare Baby Cart
serie producerade Katsu, och agerade huvudrollen i, de tre famösa
filmerna om Hanzo The
Razor Itami. Fulla av sex och våld är de en underhållande
men mycket bisarr blandning av
samurajfilm och exploitation. Finns nu i fina utgåvor av alltid
utmärkta Home Vision Entertainment |
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Kitanos nyversion av sagan om den blinde samurajen och hans hyllning till
den störste, legenden Shintaro Katsu.
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Zatoichi
Direction: Takeshi Kitano, production: 2003
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa
DVD med japanskt tal och engelsk text, region 3
Korean Premier Entertainment DVD edition |
Baby
Cart |
Tomasiburo
Wakayama |
Lone Wolf & Cub/Baby Cart
filmerna: Den legendariska och mycket underhållande serien
om 6 filmer som Shintaro Katsu producerade i början av 70-talet med
sin storebror Wakayama
i huvudrollen som Itto Ogami är alla samuraj-splatterfilmers moder
och mega-stora i väst |
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Part one in the classic samurai splatter
film series about Itto Ogami, the ex-
executor, the professional killer and his
young son in a fine restored original
version |
Lone
Wolf & Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1972
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Itto meets Sayaka and her band of female
assassins with the deadly use of the built-in
knives of the baby cart.
Restored original version
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Lone
Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1972
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region 1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Itto rescues a young woman accused of
killing her Master, and he's hired to murder
a sheriff. Restored original version |
Lone Wolf
& Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1972
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro, Sayoko Kato
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
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US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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Itto loses contact with his son when he
hunts the tattooed geisha O-Yuki, and
he's stalked by the evil lord Relsudo.
Restored original version
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Lone Wolf
& Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Direction: Saito Buichi, production: 1972
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro, Yoichi Hayashi
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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The 5 best warriors of the Kuroda Clan are
sent to test the strenghth of Itto Ogami,
and Itto deals with the lord Kuroda.
Restored original version
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Lone Wolf
& Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Direction: Kenji Misumi, production: 1973
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro, Michiyo Yasuda
DVD in japanese audio with english subtitles, region
1
US AnimEigo DVD edition |
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In the last and 6th entry of the
series
there's a highly entertaining and bizarre
ending fight to the death between Itto
and the men of lord Relsudo on a snow-
clad mountain
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Baby Cart
6: White Heaven in Hell
Direction: Yoshiyuko Kuroda, production:
1974
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomikawa Akihiro
VCD in japanese audio without english subtitles,
region free
Hong Kong Mei Ah VCD edition |
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