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Zatoichi's flashing sword / Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. ; directed by Kazuo Ikehiro ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka, Shozaburo Asai. Fight, Zatoichi, fight / Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. ; director by Kenji Misumi ; produced by Tomio Takamori, Sadao Zaizen ; screenplay by Seiji Hoshikawa, Tetsuo Yoshida, Masaatsu Matsumura.
LIBRA DVD 025 825
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 679.
- Zatōichi, the blind swordsman ; 7-8.
- The Criterion Collection ; 679
- Zatoichi, the blind swordsman
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Swordsmen--Japan--Drama.
- Swordsmen.
- Blind--Japan--Drama.
- Blind.
- Yakuza--Japan--Drama.
- Yakuza.
- History.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868--Drama.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Swashbuckler films.
- Feature films.
- Action and adventure films.
- Martial arts films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Distribution:
- [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2013]
- Language Note:
- Japanese dialogue; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital.
- digital optical Dolby Digital
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Zatoishi's flashing sword: Shintaro Katsu, Naoko Kubo, Mayumi Nagisa, Takashi Edajima, Tatsuo Endo.
- Fight, Zatoichi, fight: Shintaro Katsu, Nobuo Kaneko, Gen Kimura, Shosaku Sugiyama, Ikuko Mori.
- Credits:
- Zatoishi's flashing sword: Cinematographer, Yasukazu Takemura ; editor, Takashi Taniguchi ; music, Sei Ikeno.
- Fight, Zatoichi, fight: Cinematographer, Chikashi Makiura ; editor, Kanji Suganuma ; music, Akira Ifukube.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as motion pictures in 1964.
- Local Notes:
- Issued by Criterion Collection as one disc in a twenty-seven disc set, entitled Zatoishi, the blind swordsman.
- Contains:
- Fight, Zatoichi, fight
- OCLC:
- 880174789
- Publisher Number:
- CC2330BDDVD-8 The Criterion Collection
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