The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
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- Synopsis
- Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s....
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- Director(s)
- Beat Takeshi Kitano
- Distributor(s)
- Miramax
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 116 min.
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Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites
The summer's most rousing action picture.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
If there's a larger theme in Zatoichi, it's that nobody is quite who he or she seems.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The kind of film I more and more find myself seeking out, a film that seems alive in the sense that it appears to have free will; if, in the middle of a revenge tragedy, it feels like adding a suite for hoes and percussion, it does.Read the full review
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