Zatoichi and the Festival of Fire (1970)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres - Action, Adventure, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Samurai Film |
Run Time - 96 min. |
Countries - Japan |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Perry Seibert
Misumi Kenji's Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire finds the famous blind swordsman becoming mixed up with a blind but powerful gangster. The town is a brutal place where women and children are regularly available to the highest bidder. Zatoichi takes a fancy to two local women, and this causes him to earn the ire of both two local men - one of them a Yakuza.
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Samurai, blindness [physical], masseuse, secret-organization, slavery, imperialism, jealousy
