ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO MOVIE
All in all, I think it is a very good samurai movie with a lot of character. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo ZATOICHI 20 Directed by Kihachi Okamoto 1970 Japan After a two-year absence from screens, the blind swordsman returns in one of his best adventures. How could one not become depressed, greedy and an alcolohic? Zatoichi's performance is average when compared with his other performances of the same series. He is a drunk because he is depressed: he was poor to the point that he did not have money to drink tea, he did not have the money to redeem his prostitute girlfriend (which is the reason why he is greedy), he was jealous of Zatoichi and he had to do all the dirty work as a spy. I think Mifune's character was quite good(inspite of Mr. This is particularly good for people who know something about Japanese swordsmanship (iaijitsu, not kenjitsu, and Toshiro did something similar at the end of his other K urosawa movie Sanjuro). And I definitely enjoyed the iaijitsu that Toshiro used to kill the bad guy after he shot his girlfriend. But I think the plot of pitching the Yojimbo, Zatoichi, and the nine-headed- bird kunai(mistranslated as dragon)a shogunate spy is certainly a new twist. The back drop is nothing new: the usual corrupted government official and gansters fighting against each other.
Although it carried the name Yojimbo, it has nothing to do with the original Akira Kurosawa creation, which was an excellent movie. Have always been a fan of Toshiro Mifune, though not so much of the blind man. I first saw this movie when it came out in VHS.
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