Zatoichi the Outlaw
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Satsuo Yamamoto Film series Zatoichi Film Series Duration Country Japan | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Drama Story by Kan Shimosawa Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Koji Matsumoto , Takehiro Nakajima , Kiyokata Saruwaka Release date 12 August 1967 (1967-08-12) (Japan) Based on Zatoichi
by Kan Shimozawa Cast Shintarô Katsu (Zatoichi), Rentarô Mikuni (Asagoro), Kô Nishimura (Uneshiro Suga), Yuko Hamada (Shino), Toshiyuki Hosokawa (Nisaburo), Takuya Fujioka (Zato Sanji)Similar movies Zatoichi movies, Samurai movies, Movies about Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zatoichi the Outlaw (座頭市牢破り, Zatōichi rōyaburi) is a 1967 Japanese chambara film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures), and is the first film produced by Katsu Productions (Katsu's own company).
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Zatoichi the Outlaw is the sixteenth episode in the 26-part film series devoted to the character of Zatoichi.
Plot
In a rural village, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters Shushi Ohara (Suzuki; modeled after 18th-century agriculturalist Yagaku Ohara) a sword-less ronin who defends himself against multiple attackers without killing them. Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the abstention from gambling, drinking, and whoring.
Cast
Critical response
J. Doyle Wallis, in a review for DVD Talk, wrote that "[t]his film has one of the better plots in the series, the almost hippie ex-samurai's teaching posing as a threat to the gangsters who prefer the villagers to lead debauched lives. Unfortunately some of the storytelling is sloppy, particularly the side-plot characters who Ichi becomes involved with. Their introductions and back story were told so quickly and incidentally, that when their stories began to get a third act wrap up, I had trouble recalling who they were in the first place."
References
Zatoichi the Outlaw WikipediaZatoichi the Outlaw IMDb Zatoichi the Outlaw themoviedb.org