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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman
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1h 22m
ZATOICHI #18
Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda • 1968 • Japan
The wandering swordsman finds himself in a small village that serves as hideout for a band of fugitives who control the town officials and enforce brutal slave labor in the local silk mill. This lean and mean entry is packed with coldhearted villainy and rough justice, but it finds its heart in the great Takashi Shimura (IKIRU), who plays a kindly country doctor caught up in a violent world.
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