The New Tale Of Zatoichi is a Japanese film, the third entry from the popular Zatoichi

Zatoichi

is a fictional character featured in one of Japan's longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist . This originally minor character was developed for the screen by Daiei Studios and actor...

 series completing the trilogy. The film is the first Zatoichi film to be in colour.

Plot

Zatoichi travels to his old village in spite of looking for peace and stop the killing but the brother of boss kanbei wants to put an end to Zatoichi's life where he meets his old master who tries to get his younger sister married to a respectable samurai but she fall in love with zatoichi, whilst his master becomes corrupt, due to financial troubles and results into kidnapping which puts zatoichi into a moral dilemma.

Cast

• Shintaro Katsu
  Shintaro Katsu
  , born Toshio Okumura was a Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director...
  
   as Zatoichi
• Mikiko Tsubouchi as Yayoi
• Seizaburô Kawazu as Banno
• Fujio Suga as Yasuhiko
• Mieko Kondo as Inn keeper's wife
• Chitose Maki as Tame's wife

Availability

The New Tale Of Zatoichi was released in 1963 and was made available on DVD on October 22, 2002.

Reception

The film gathered two fresh reviews from Rotten Tomatoes

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 and like the previous installments it spawned a number of sequels.

See also

• List of original Zatoichi films
• Samurai cinema
  Samurai cinema
  While earlier samurai period pieces were more dramatic rather than action-based, samurai movies post World War II have become more action-based, with darker and more violent characters. Post-war samurai epics tended to portray psychologically or physically scarred warriors. Akira Kurosawa stylized...