Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Original title: Zatôichi to yôjinbô

1970
12
1h 55m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

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Toshirô Mifune and Shintarô Katsu in Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

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Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes r... Read allZatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This film was so popular that in the U.S. is was booked into some theaters that normally didn't run foreign language films.

Quotes
[first lines]
Zatoichi: I've got blood on my hands again.

Connections
Followed by Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

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Featured review

6/10

A Wasted Opportunity

Whilst the cinematography is on the upper echelons of sleekness in the Zatoichi series, the story is rather trivial and rehashed. Yojimbo just feels like he's been shoehorned in, and as a consequence is flatly one-dimensional; like a cardboard cutout peeling at the edges. He also seems to be in most of the scenes, which are just him being drunk and shouting. If they had made some judicious cuts we wouldn't have to wade through the bloated 2 hour runtime. I was interested in the darkly menacing character of Kuzuryu, played magnificently by Shin Kishida. But alas, he is underutilised. With his nihilistic look he would have made a worthy archnemesis for Zatoichi. Overall the movie is just so-so with little rewatch value. One of the lesser titles in the Zatoichi series, despite Toshiro Mifune featuring.