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Zatoichi's cane sword / Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. ; directed by Kenji Misumi ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Ryozo Kasahara.
LIBRA DVD 025 861
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 679.
- Zatōichi, the blind swordsman ; 15.
- 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:
- Feature films.
- Action and adventure films.
- Swashbuckler films.
- Martial arts films.
- Film adaptations.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (93 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:
- In Japanese with subtitles in English.
- 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:
- Shintaro Katsu, Jushiro Konoe, Miwa Takada, Yukiji Asaoka, Mikio Tsubouchi.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Chikashi Makiura; editor, Toshio Taniguchi; music, Akira Ifukube.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1967.
- Local Notes:
- Issued by Criterion Collection as one disc in a twenty-seven disc set entitled Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have cataloged these discs separately.
- OCLC:
- 880174648
- Publisher Number:
- CC2330BDDVD-15 The Criterion Collection
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