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1 year 10 months ago

Though the world of Zatoichi's Revenge is nothing new in Japanese cinema, it is slightly darker, or at least more vicious, than what we've seen from the Zatoichi series to date. Trying to visit an old master of his, Ichi finds he's been murdered and his debts are being paid by his daughter sold into indentured servitude. In fact, the action mostly surrounds human trafficking, with a corrupt and brutal yakuza boss essentially loan sharking and scamming people into have to give him their daughters for his brothel (including a very young girl who befriends our righteous blind swordsman). There's a lot of hand-held camera work in this one, leading up to a long hand-held fight sequence impressively done in a single shot, and the Spanish guitar in the score is more suited to westerns than samurai films, but works very well. We're on the tenth film of the series here, and the production is still finding new fight and gambling gags to entertain me with. And ways to make the stories feel personal to the hero so that we care.

3 years 10 months ago