Cast
Crew
T
Tokuzō Tanaka
Director
H
Hiroshi Yamada
Editor
C
Chikashi Makiura
Director of Photography
K
Kikuo Umebayashi
Screenplay
M
Minoru Inuzuka
Screenplay
K
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story
S
Seiichi Ōta
Art Direction
I
Ikuo Kubodera
Producer
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection
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. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.