Zatoichi (2003)
- Starring:
- Beat Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, (more)
- Director(s):
- Beat Takeshi Kitano
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatôichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs, and helps two geishas take revenge on the men who murdered their parents. His mission leads him to a final, bloody confrontation with the gang's mastermind and his hired assassin (Tadanobu Asano), a swordsman with a reputation as lethal as Zatôichi. ~ Tom Vick, All Movie Guide
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Complete Cast:
- Beat Takeshi Kitano - Zatôichi/Ichi
- Michiyo Okusa - Aunt Oume
- Guadalcanal Taka - Shinkichi
- Yûko Daike - Okinu
- Saburo Ishikura - Ôgiya
- Michiyo Ookusu - O-Ume
- Tadanobu Asano - Gennosuke Hattori
- Yui Natsukawa - Oshino
- Daigoro Tachibana - Osei, the Geisha
- Ittoku Kishibe - Ginzo
- Akira Emoto - Shinkichi
- Director(s):
- Beat Takeshi Kitano
- Writer(s):
- Beat Takeshi Kitano
- Producer(s):
- Tsunehisa Saito, Masayuki Mori
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Graphic Violence)
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- 2003 - Zatoichi - Venice International Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Silver Lion
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