In 2020, deep in worldwide quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the developers at Sucker Punch Productions unleashed Ghost ...

Starting today, viewers in the U.S. can stream the "24/7 SAMURAI-SHINOBI” channel for free on Prime Video and experience a thrilling collection of movies and television series from acclaimed Japanese ...

The movie is thoroughly meta, jam-packed with in-jokes and references to classic samurai films.For example, one of the characters is named Kurosawa, and the sword at the heart of the plot actually ...

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 ...

Movie franchises often struggle with their fourth entry, but there are so many franchises, from Rocky to James Bond, that got a second wind.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yukiji Asaoka (born July 23, 1935) is a Japanese singer and an actress from Chūō, Tokyo. She is the daughter of ...

Zatoichi’s name being invoked as part of Jedi training is a nice head nod back to where Lucas likely got the idea for that scene – and a lot of other Jedi tropes – in A New Hope. Star Wars ...

Asian action purists who've absorbed a majority of actor Shintarô Katsu's 26 legendary Zatôichi films (a role he played from 1962 to 1989) will probably find filmmaker Takeshi Kitano's recent pop ...

A big fan of Beat Takeshi, I also love his 2003 adaptation The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi. In each incarnation, including Yen’s in John Wick 4 , Zatoichi is a reluctant fighter, a man of peace ...

Mifune squares off with Shintaro Katsu’s Zatoichi in the duel of the super-stars. Twentieth in the Zatoichi series boasts raucous comedy teamwork by the stars, ravishing widescreen color photography ...

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.

Best martial arts movies | Today, as with any creative genre, the lines have been redrawn and redefined regarding what it means to be a martial arts film. But what remains the same is the commitmen… ...