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Title:

Zatoichi . The blind swordsman . Disc 2 [Blu-ray].

Format:

[Blu-ray].

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

1 videodisc (255 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

1600-1868
Swordsmen--Japan--Drama.
Blind--Japan--Drama.
Yakuza--Japan--Drama.
Swashbuckler films.
Films de cape et d'épée.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
Blind.
Swashbuckler films.
Swordsmen.
Yakuza.
Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Drama.
Japan.
Drama.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
History.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Films de fiction.
Adaptations cinématographiques.

Other Authors:

Katsu, Shintarō, 1931-1997, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Shimozawa, Kan, 1892-1968. Zatōichi.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Titles:

Contains (work): Zatoichi the fugitive.
Contains (work): Zatoichi on the road.
Contains (work): Zatoichi and the chest of gold.

Notes:

Title from container. Based on the novels by Shimozawa Kan. Originally released as individual motion pictures from 1963 to 1964. Shintaro Katsu.

Contents:

4. Zatoichi the fugitive -- 5. Zatoichi on the road -- 6. Zatoichi and the chest of gold.

Summary:

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 679

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863511933

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)