This article comes from Den of Geek UK. In the 1978 US documentary The Blind Swordsman, Shintaro Katsu is asked how he’d like to present himself to American viewers. “I have zero interest in promoting ...

A forgotten 1971 martial arts movie stands out as one of the greatest crossover films to pit two different heroic icons ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the Daiei Film adventure flick. Zatoichi and the Chess Expert starring Shintarō Katsu, Mikio Narita, Kaneko Iwasaki, Gaku Yamamoto has a Not ...

The hundred episodes of the TV series followed 1970s TV dynamics: Zatoichi was (mostly) unchanging from one episode to the next, and the 45-minute episodes (allowing for 15 minutes of advertisement ...

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The clandestine world of John Wick is populated by a seemingly never-ending array of assassins and contract killers. As the series has progressed, these violent professionals who are looking to either ...

It's not that "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi" lacks gory scenes. When a sightless masseur chops off a gambler's hand, the amputated limb spouts a geyser of blood on par with anything in "Kill Bill." ...

When I was in high school 20-something years ago, I would get up early every Saturday to watch Zatoichi movies on cable. One of Japan’s longest-running film series (seriously, think the Marvel movies ...

One of the most popular heroes in Japanese cinema, Zatoichi the blind swordsman inspired 26 feature films, more than 100 TV episodes, and countless comics and collectibles. But for a matinee idol, he ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the Daiei Film adventure flick. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold starring Shintarō Katsu, Shōgo Shimada, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Machiko Hasegawa has a ...

What separates “Zatoichi” from other swordfight movies is that the eponymous hero, played, of course, by Kitano himself, is blind. Like the many other directors of films featuring this well-known ...