Zatoichi and the Fugitives is a darker and more gritty film and we see Ichi taking much more damage than normally and is run down substantially before he stands up for himself. This film has a ...

Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman was the result. Golden Harvest ended up running into legal trouble with Shaw Brothers anyway, because of the use of the name "One-Armed Swordsman" in the title ...

Zatoichi has been a major pop culture figure in Japan since the 1960s but a cult figure in the West since the twenty-five movies that were released in Asia between 1962 and 1973 were less well ...