Zatoichi: the blind swordsman

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...

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Sprache:Japanese
Veröffentlicht: [New York] The Criterion Collection [2013]
Schriftenreihe:The Criterion collection 679
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Zusammenfassung: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, starring Shintaro Katsu, collected in one package for the first time
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Enthält 25 Filme und Bonusmaterial auf 27 Discs; jeweils 3 Filme auf 2 DVDs, sowie selbe 3 Filme jeweils auf 1 Blu-Ray mit Beiheft in Schuber
"The tale of Zatoichi", "The tale of Zatoichi continues" Original Japan 1962
"New tale of Zatoichi", "Zatoichi the fugitive", "Zatoichi on the road" Original Japan 1963
"Zatoichi and the chest of gold", "Zatoichi's flashing sword", "Fight, Zatoichi, fight" "Adventures of Zatoichi" Original Japan 1964
"Zatoichi's revenge", Zatoichi and the doomed man", "Zatoichi and the chess expert" Original Japan 1965
"Zatoichi's vengeance", "Zatoichi's pilgrimage" Original Japan 1966
"Zatoichi's cane sword", "Zatoichi the outlaw", "Zatoichi challenged" Original Japan 1967
"Zatoichi and the fugitives", "Samaritan Zatoichi" Original Japan 1968
"Zatoichi meets Yojimbo", "Zatoichi goes to the fire festival" Original Japan 1970
"Zatoichi meets the one-armed swordsman" Original Japan 1971
"Zatoichi at large", "Zatoichi in desperation" Original Japan 1972
"Zatoichi's conspiracy" Original Japan 1973
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Each part consists of 2 DVDs and 1 Blu-ray disc containing 3 films
Originally released as 25 individual motion pictures from 1962 to 1973
Beiheft enthält: "The road with Zatoichi" by Geoffrey O'Brien, Auflistung der Filme mit Credits, sowie "notes" by Chris D. mit Illustrationen, "The tale of Zatoichi" by Kan Shimozawa, translated for this release by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Kyoto, July 2013
Special features: New digital restoration of all twenty-five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rays. Disc 25: The blind swordsman (a 1978 documentary about Zatoichi portrayer and filmmaker Shintaro Katsu). Disc 26: Serialized success (interview with Asian-film critic Tony Rayns on the Zatoichi series); Trailers (theatrical trailers for all 15 Zatoichi movies)
Beschreibung:18 DVD-Videos und 9 Blu-Rays (2197 min) überwiegend farbig 12 cm 1 Beiheft (95 Seiten)
Zielpublikum:Rating: Not rated
ISBN:9781604658002

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