Cast
Crew
K
Kazuo Ikehiro
Director
K
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story
S
Sei Ikeno
Original Music Composer
Y
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Y
Yasukazu Takemura
Director of Photography
T
Takashi Taniguchi
Editor
S
Shozaburo Asai
Screenplay
M
Minoru Inuzuka
Screenplay
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection
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. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.
