Zatoichi /

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and...

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Main Author:	Shimozawa, Kan, 1892-1968 (Author)
Other Authors:	Katsu, Shintarō, 1931-1997 (Screenwriter, Actor), Asai, Shozaburo (Screenwriter), Inuzuka, Minoru, 1901-2007 (Screenwriter), Umebayashi, Kikuo, 1932- (Screenwriter), Hoshikawa, Siji (Screenwriter), Ota, Akikazu (Screenwriter), Yoshida, Tetsurō (Screenwriter), Matsumura, Masaatsu (Screenwriter), Itō, Daisuke, 1898-1981 (Screenwriter), Takaiwa, Hajime (Screenwriter), Shindō, Kaneto, 1912-2012 (Screenwriter), Kasahara, Ryozo (Screenwriter), Nakajima, Takehiro, 1935- (Screenwriter), Matsumoto, Kōji (Screenwriter), Saruwaka, Kiyokata (Screenwriter), Naoi, Kinya (Screenwriter), Sugiura, Hisashi (Screenwriter), Okamoto, Kihachi, 1924-2005 (Screenwriter), Yamada, Takayuki (Screenwriter), Hattori, Yoshiko (Screenwriter), Banri, Masayo (Actor), Amachi, Shigeru, 1931-1985 (Actor), Wakayama, Tomisaburō, 1929-1992 (Actor), Mizutani, Yaeko, 1905- (Actor), Yanagi, Eijirō, 1895-1984 (Actor), Kawazu, Seizaburo (Actor), Kondo, Mieko (Actor), Takada, Miwa, 1947- (Actor), Kobayashi, Katsuhiko (Actor), Abe, Tōru, 1917-1993 (Actor), Fujimura, Shiho, 1939- (Actor), Shimada, Shōgo, 1905-2004 (Actor), Date, Saburo (Actor, 1924-1991,), Kubo, Naoko, 1932- (Actor), Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971 (Actor), Kaneko, Nobuo, 1923-1995 (Actor), Katō, Yoshi, 1913-1988 (Actor), Hira, Mikijirō, 1933-2016 (Actor), Kōno, Akitake, 1911-1978 (Actor), Ueda, Kichijirō, 1904-1972 (Actor), Miki, Norihei, 1924-1999 (Actor), Katō, Takeshi, 1929- (Actor), Fujiyama, Kanbi, 1929-1990 (Actor), Murase, Sachiko (Actor), Yamamoto, Gaku, 1937- (Actor), Marui, Tarō (Actor), Toura, Mutsuhiro (Actor), Yamamoto, Ichiro (Actor), Satō, Kei, 1928-2010 (Actor), Hamamura, Jun, 1906-1995 (Actor), Yoshikawa, Mitsuko (Actor), Azuma, Michi, 1941- (Actor), Ōkusu, Michiyo, 1946- (Actor), Yamagata, Isao, 1915-1996 (Actor), Igawa, Hisashi (Actor), Tanaka, Kunie, 1932- (Actor), Mishima, Masao, 1906-1973 (Actor), Fujita, Makoto, 1933-2010 (Actor), Tōno, Eijirō, 1907-1994 (Actor), Harukawa, Masumi, 1935- (Actor), Mikuni, Rentarō, 1923-2013 (Actor), Nishimura, Kō (Actor), Hamada, Yūko (Actor), Hosokawa, Toshiyuki (Actor), Asaoka, Yukiji, 1935- (Actor), Koike, Asao, 1931-1985 (Actor), Matsumura, Tatsuo, 1914-2005 (Actor), Ozawa, Eitarō, 1909-1988 (Actor), Kusanagi, Kōjirō, 1929-2007 (Actor), Nogawa, Yumiko, 1944- (Actor), Machida, Kyosuke (Actor), Mita, Yoshiko, 1941- (Actor), Miyako, Chōchō, 1920-2000 (Actor), Wakao, Ayako, 1933- (Actor), Takizawa, Osamu, 1906-2000 (Actor), Yonekura, Masakane, 1934-2014 (Actor), Arashi, Kanjūrō, 1903-1980 (Actor), Koyama, Shigeru (Actor), Sunazuka, Hideo (Actor), Kusano, Daigo, 1939-1991 (Actor), Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Actor), Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935- (Actor), Kaneda, Ryūnosuke, 1928- (Actor), Mori, Masayuki, 1911-1973 (Actor), Nakadai, Tatsuya, 1932- (Actor), Ochiai, Saburō (Actor), Wang, Yu, 1944- (Actor), Morishige, Hisaya, 1913-2009 (Actor), Takahashi, Etsushi, 1935-1996 (Actor), Taichi, Kiwako, 1943-1992 (Actor), Tajima, Kazuko, 1941- (Actor), Toake, Yukiyo, 1942- (Actor), Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982 (Actor), Tsuchiya, Yoshio, 1927- (Actor), Okada, Eiji, 1920-1995 (Actor), Makiura, Chishi (director of photography.), Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999 (director of photography.), Ifukube, Akira, 1914-2006 (composer (expression)), Saitō, Ichirō, 1909-1979 (composer (expression)), Ōmori, Seitarō (composer (expression)), Kaburagi, Hajime (composer (expression)), Tomita, Isao, 1932- (composer (expression)), Murai, Kunihiko (composer (expression)), Nathan, John, 1940- (interviewee (expression)), Rayns, Tony (interviewee (expression))
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Published:	New York : The Criterion Collection, 2013.
Edition:	1962-1973 motion picture releases.
Series:	Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 679.
Subjects:	Swordsmen > Japan > Drama. Blind > Japan > Drama. Masseurs > Japan > Drama. Yakuza > Japan > Drama. Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 > Drama. Martial arts films. Swashbuckler films. Action and adventure films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Film adaptations. Feature films. Fiction films.

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Summary:	The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, starring Shintaro Katsu, collected in one package for the first time.
Item Description:	Originally released as 25 individual motion pictures from 1962 to 1973. Based on the novel by Shimozawa Kan. Special features: New digital restoration of all twenty-five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rays. Disc 25: The blind swordsman (a 1978 documentary about Zatoichi portrayer and filmmaker Shintaro Katsu). Disc 26: Serialized success (interview with Asian-film critic Tony Rayns on the Zatoichi series); Trailers (theatrical trailers for all 15 Zatoichi movies); New English subtitle translation. Booklet featuring essays, synopses, the original short story by Kan Shimozawa and twenty-five new illustrations. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	9 videodiscs (2197 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Blu-ray; enhanced for widescreen (16:9) presentation; requires Blu-ray player.
Audience:	Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:	Cinematographers, Chikashi Makiura, Shozo Honda, Kazuo Miyagawa, Yasukazu Takemura, Fujio Morita, Hiroshi Imai, Senkichiro Takeda ; art directors, Akira Naito, Seiichi Ota, Yoshinobu Nishioka, Shigeru Kato, Shigenori Shimoishizaka ; music, Akira Ifukube, Ichiro Saito, Sei Ikeno, Taichiro Kosugi, Seitaro Omori, Hajime Kaburagi, Isao Tomita, Kunihiko Murai, Mitsuo Miyamoto ; editors, Kanji Suganuma, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Yamada, Toshio Taniguchi, Yoshiharu Hayashi.
ISBN:	9781604658002 1604658002