From 1962-1989, Shintaro Katsu played the original role of Zatoichi in a series of 26 films. From 1974 to 1979, the television series Zatoichi starred Katsu and produced by his own production outfit.

Shintaro Katsu played him in 25 movies between 1962 and 1973—all of them recently assembled in a handsome box from the Criterion Collection titled "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman." ...

Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director's chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. A tale of ...

Released , 'The Tale of Zatoichi Continues' stars Shintarō Katsu, Yoshie Mizutani, Masayo Banri, Tomisaburō Wakayama The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 12 min, and received a user score of 70 ...

And as Shintaro Katsu was the blind swordsman Zatoichi in 26 films from 1963 to 1989, any who come after will be measured against him. So Kitano, who not only directs but writes and stars, is up ...

How does one perpetuate the longest-running samurai action series–which yielded 26 films and over a hundred TV episodes starring the late Shintaro Katsu as a blind, sword-wieldi ...

With Shintaro Katsu, Miwa Takada, Misayo Banri, Junichiro Narita, Katsuhiko Kobayashi. As the iconic blind masseur Zatoichi, Katsu enters this fourth--and one of the most acclaimed--episode of the ...

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 myself,” he barks, waving the ...

Shintarō Katsu (勝 新太郎 Katsu Shintarō?), born Toshio Okumura (奥村 利夫 Okumura Toshio, November 29, 1931—June 21, 1997; nicknamed Katsu-shin) was a Japanese actor, singer, producer ...

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