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Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi's Vengeance

1966
Drama, Action
1h 23m
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son... (imdb)
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Zatoichi's Vengeance

1966
Drama, Action
1h 23m
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Rated 07 May 2013
70
63rd
Zatoichi meets a dying man on the road, who asks Ichi to deliver a parcel of money to his young son. The town is the middle of being taken over by an ambitious yakuza who is extracting unreasonably large protection fees from the villagers. Yes, it's another promise to a dying stranger, another group of children and old people befriended, and another evil gang being shredded, but that's not a bad thing. Katsu's swordplay is as skilled as ever.
Rated 05 Jun 2015
59
62nd
Maybe the most satisfying Zatoichi yet. The side story with the priest and Ichi's supposed crisis of conscience might seem to drag the story down a bit, since we know Ichi's obviously going to learn that "Sometimes You Need to Fight!" in the end, but it allows some time for good character development. The central battle, beginning at dusk and continuing through to night, is excellent, and Ichi's eventual strong-arming of the bad guys is particularly badass.
Rated 04 Dec 2015
2
21st
This installment does have an interesting supporting character (a blind priest) and one of the more impressively filmed fight sequences (atop a bridge in silhouette, on a two dimensional plane), but sometimes the repetition is too tedious.
Rated 15 Apr 2016
60
50th
One of the better entries brings much-needed moral complexity to Zatoichi's decisions and the action is outstanding with the high-point being the silhouette fight. A good couple of steps up from the last few.
Rated 28 Dec 2016
81
79th
Ichi hopes to take a vacation and find peace but instead finds a town overrun by gangsters. Its interesting to watch him accept being a role model and struggling to maintain that image by being non violent. His eventual and inevitable explosion is one of the most picturesque battles of the series. The transition from trying to be "innocent" to being a menacing presence was great work on katsus part.
Rated 25 Dec 2019
80
68th
This is a really solid Zatoichi outing ... nothing spectacularly different, but entertaining. Mayumi Ogawa stands out as a prostitute with a secret background who Zatoichi befriends.
Rated 01 Oct 2020
64
57th
Best one yet. Also the first time someone questions Ichi's violent methods and points out its moral issues.

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