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.

The legacy of Zatoichi – and Shintaro Katsu – has never looked brighter or more vital. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman is out now on Blu-ray through The Criterion Collection. Ad.

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 ...

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman was a major film series and a TV series, with 100 episodes also starring Shintaro Katsu now streaming on Tubi. Published Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:07:07 -0500 by Adi Tantimedh ...

David Mermelstein reviews Criterion Collection's release of 25 movies starring Shintaro Katsu as Japan's sightless do-gooder.

Japan Society's latest Monthly Classics film series The Double-Edged Sword: The Chambara Films of Shintaro Katsu & Raizo Ichikawa pays tribute to two Japanese screen legends in their most ...

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-wielding masseur ...

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 ...

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He starred in 24 more Zatoichi films between 1962 and 1973, 100 episodes of a Zatoichi TV series between 1974 and 1979 and one final send-off in 1989’s Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally.