Blind Meng, played by Mo Tse, is a blind bounty hunter with a mysterious past who hunts wanted criminals during the twilight years of the Tang Dynasty, where corruption and lawlessness spread across ...

The hundred episodes of the TV series followed 1970s TV dynamics: Zatoichi was (mostly) unchanging from one episode to the next, and the 45-minute episodes (allowing for 15 minutes of advertisement ...

Chinese martial arts films have a long tradition of including quite an array of masterful fighters with significant disabilities. Many of them feature a hero who is blind, deaf, missing an arm, etc.

HAVE PITY for the well-trained ninjas who think they can destroy Zatoichi. In "The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi," they come at this unassuming, gray-haired old masseur with everything: sticks, knives, ...

How does one perpetuate the longest-running samurai action series—which yielded 26 films and over a hundred TV episodes starring the late Shintaro Katsu as a blind, sword-wielding masseur—without ...

The Japanese films included in the Criterion Collection are often works by directors who are quintessential representatives ...

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 ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Blind Swordsman You’re the blind swordsman and you’re on a quest to get your sight back! Fight countless enemies and find new skills you never thought ...

The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.