Blind Meng, played by Mo Tse, is a blind bounty hunter with a mysterious past who hunts wanted criminals during the twilight years of the Tang Dynasty, where corruption and lawlessness spread across ...

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—without ...

Nobody can make you like this stuff if you don't want to. So although there's no doubt that "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi" is the summer's most rousing action picture, it's also hard as nails, bloody ...

It's always fun to write about ZATOICHI, and the upcoming DVD release of the latest version of the franchise, ICHI, gives me a good excuse. Every country has a favourite rebel hero in pop culture, a ...

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Katsu Production, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Dainichi-Eihai, Daiei Film adventure flick. Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman starring Shintarō ...

In the exciting second installment of the series, Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) is attacked by samurai and yakuza thugs because he has learned a secret about a feudal lord. Yoshie Mizutani, Masayo Mari, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Blind Swordsman You’re the blind swordsman and you’re on a quest to get your sight back! Fight countless enemies and find new skills you never thought ...

I admit it. What I don’t know about samurai or martial arts flicks would fill up a thousand Thomas Video stores. I snobbishly dismissed the genre as cartoonish, over-the-top drivel geared toward ...

Writer-director-actor Takeshi Kitano’s big-budget celebration of the Japanese folk hero—a blind, itinerant masseur and gambler—is a riot of samurai lore, peppered with quicksilver fights and winking ...