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Audiobooks & Video Training Zatoichi Complete Collection (26 movies, 1962-1989)

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Name: Audiobooks & Video Training Zatoichi Complete Collection (26 movies, 1962-1989) ASIN/ISBN: B00073K7JY Language: Action, Adventure, Drama File size: 700 Mb File Type: avi File Type: mp3, AC3, vorbis File Size: ~ 700 Mb per movie Other Info: DVDRip; 704-544x320-240; DivX, XviD @ 673-2294 Kbps; 72-118 mins per movie

Free register and download UseNet downloader, then you can FREE Download from UseNet.     Download without Limit " Audiobooks & Video Training Zatoichi Complete Collection (26 movies, 1962-1989) " from UseNet for FREE! More Zatoichi Complete Collection (26 movies, 1962-1989) Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu Zatoichi (座頭市, Zatōichi) 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 enduring popularity of the character has been likened to that of James Bond in Western countries. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa (子母澤 寛, Shimozawa Kan). This originally minor character was developed for the screen by Daiei Studios (now Kadokawa Pictures) and actor Shintaro Katsu, who created the screen version. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. Film number 17 of the original series was remade in America in 1990 (by TriStar Pictures) as Blind Fury, an action movie starring Rutger Hauer. From 1972 to 1974, a television series of the same name was made. One hundred and twelve episodes were aired before the "Zatoichi" television series was cancelled. The original series of 26 films featured Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi. The first film was made in 1962 in black and white. The third film, in 1963, was the first to be filmed in color. The twenty-fifth film was made in 1973 followed by a hiatus of 16 years until Katsu's last film, which he wrote and directed himself in 1989. The original series of movies features other popular fictional characters of the genre on two occasions: Zatoichi and the One Armed Swordsman (1971) connects with the Shaw Brothers series of Hong Kong produced movies directed by prolific director Chang Cheh. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) features a guest star, Toshirō Mifune playing a character named Sassa Daisakka who, despite the title, bears slight resemblance to the title character of Akira Kurosawa's hit films Yojimbo (lit. "bodyguard") and Sanjuro. The earlier films, in which Mifune's character used the pseudonym Sanjuro (thirty-year-old), are alluded to when Sassa is jokingly called Shijuro (forty-year-old). The series has also had wide spread influences on non-Japanese films. The 1989 film Blind Fury featuring Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman in contemporary America is based on Zatoichi Challenged (1967, the 17th film in the series of 26). Zatoichi is one of several fictional blind heroes with superhuman fighting skills, and while predated by such American characters as the pulp fiction and comic book heroes The Black Bat and Doctor Mid-Nite respectively, is followed by the likes of Daredevil. The 1970s television series Kung Fu also featured the blind Shaolin priest Master Po (played by Keye Luke). Buy It at Lowest Price on Amazon Interchangable links.

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[02] The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master. Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love: his own brother. He must face in combat not only the pursuing retainers but his own flesh-and-blood.

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[03] New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is tired of killing. He journeys to his old village looking for peace, but is pursued by the brother of Boss Kanbei, a man he's killed. Back home, Ichi connects with Banno, his teacher, who seeks prestige and has arranged for his younger sister, Yayoi, to marry into a wealthy samurai family. Ichi and Yayoi realize they are in love, but Ichi's request for her hand meets with Banno's derision. Ichi is also drawn into Banno's plot to kidnap the son of a wealthy man, ostensibly to aid the Mito Goblins, a gang of thieves on the run; but Banno wants to keep the ransom. Ichi wants harmony and love, but can he escape a destiny of violence?

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[04] Zatoichi The Fugitive (1963)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi angers a local yakuza gang when he defeats several of them in a wrestling match. When he finds that his long lost love Tane is nearby and romantically involved with a tough samurai in the employ of the gang, he remains in the village. Meanwhile, the young heir to the leadership is forced to confront his own fear and weakness when the gang insists he fight Ichi.

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[05] Zatoichi On the Road (1963)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is asked by a dying man to deliver the maiden Mitsu (or "Omitsu") to her family in Edo, and Zatoichi feels honor-bound to do so. But rival gangs each have an interest in kidnapping the girl for ransom. Zatoichi joins with one of the gangs when the other gang captures Mitsu, but he then finds that to rescue her, he must fight both gangs.

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[06] Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief. To clear his name he must find and defeat the real villain.

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[07] Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.

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[08] Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

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[09] Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

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[10] Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.

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[11] Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

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[12] Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning...

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[13] Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

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. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

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[14] Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Our hero Zatoichi sails to one of the distant islands to begin a pilgrimage to a total of 88 Shinto shrines. He gets to the first shrine, asking God for an answer to a very compelling riddle, when he is waylaid by a stranger. Ichi, killing the stranger, is led by the stranger's horse to town. There he meets and falls in love with the stranger's sister. A nasty boss, a bunch of thugs and a few sweeping moments reminiscent of Jane Austen follow.

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[15] Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next...

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[16] Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. But it's really all just a plot to enlist Ichi's aid in eliminating the competition. Once that's been attended to, the master of the surviving house of chance grabs more and more power - and more cash from the hapless farmers. Even a blind man can see that justice must be done!

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[17] Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. But it's really all just a plot to enlist Ichi's aid in eliminating the competition. Once that's been attended to, the master of the surviving house of chance grabs more and more power - and more cash from the hapless farmers. Even a blind man can see that justice must be done!

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[18] Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi becomes involved with a gang of bandits hiding out in a small village. While they hide in the attic of a silk mill, they manipulate the corrupt chief official of the town. Simultaneously Zatoichi tries to rescue a young woman from the sweatshop conditions of the mill. Eventually he must confront not only the leaders of the town but the outlaw gang in battle.

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[19] Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.

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[20] Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.

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[21] Zatoichi The Festival Of Fire (1970)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

This time around Zatoichi (who moonlights as a masseur) is present at a geisha auction. Later that night he rescues one of the sold women but she is unexpectedly murdered by a mysterious swordsman. We soon learn that he was the dead woman's husband and that he plans on killing Zatoichi because he believes that his wife slept with him. To complicate things further Zatoichi also makes an enemy of the local boss (a common occurrence in this series!), a blind man known as "the Prince Of Darkness" (played by Masayuki Mori who co-starred in Kurosawa's samurai classic 'Rashomon'), becomes a sort of mentor to a young, effeminate wanna-be pimp Umeji (played by Peter, who later appeared in Kurosawa's 'Ran'), and also falls in love with the beautiful Okiyo (Reiko Ohara).

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[22] Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman (1971)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

One of the more accessible films in the series due to its simpler story (two heroes ally themselves against an evil but then find themselves on different sides due to a mis-understanding). Though the Zatoichi films often vary in style and in tone, the themes (treat others as you would wish to be treated, be true to your word, gamble within your means, etc), remain constant. Here, the language barrier between Zatoichi and The One-Armed Swordsman (one is Chinese, the other Japanese), is a theme that will have had a greater resonance for its native audience rather than those in the west, but the story works well just as a straight-forward adventure yarn. Shintarô Katsu is as reliably great as ever. By turns dynamic and exacting with the sword, warm of heart with the just and needy, steely and unmerciful of the greedy and vindictive. Zatoichi is one of the great movie heroes. Shintarô Katsu, one of the great heroic actors. If you haven't seen these films then you could do worse than start here.

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[23] Zatoichi At Large (1972)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her fate.

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[24] Zatoichi In Desperation (1972)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

The story is dark, as others have noted; but the Zatoichi series, like most of the sword-fight genre series films to come out of Japan, is pretty heavy-handed stuff; the Japanese seem to take this sort of thing very seriously. Yet there is no doubt Zatoichi "24" stands out as exceptional, from both the series and its genre. The reason, I think, is its almost total sense of social dislocation; Zatoichi is treated by the other characters as somehow less than human, and his determination to fight at the end somewhat more than human, and so he comes across as something other than human; but the other humans of the film come across as rather poor representatives of the species. I should note that there is very little dialog in this film, particularly at the most dramatic moments, which heightens our sense that we are watching some tragedy from another reality.

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[25] Zatoichi at the Blood Fest (1973)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

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[26] Zatoichi, Darkness Is His Ally (1989)

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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama | Starring: Shintaro Katsu

The character of Zatoichi is older and wiser, but generally remains as we remember him. The fighting scenes certainly have zing and gore, with buckets of blood pouring whenever someone gets so much as a paper cut (including one particularly horrific blood-soaked scene of a villain continually slicing a subordinate in a drunken fit). And even though it was filmed in the late 80s, Zatoichi 26 doesn't lose any of the series' period-piece charm (in fact, the cinematography and is quite good).

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