Zatoïchi, le samurai

SYNOPSIS

Call it blind fury: sightless masseur Zatôichi (Takeshi Kitano) wanders through 19th-century Japan avenging the weak and oppressed with his razor-sharp samurai sword. A walking contradiction, hes a blind man armed with the skill and guile of a master swordsman. Based on the cult Zatôichi series that hooked Japan in the early 60s, this reimagining sees Kitano ditch his customary yakuza obsessions for a period actioner that glints with all the ruthless beauty of cold steel in the morning sunlight.
After the portentous meandering of Dolls, Zatoichi marks a return to form for Japans leading filmmaker. Refusing to explain the blind swordsmans remarkable skill with a blade, Kitano simply gets on with the task of freeing the villagers of a remote mountain town from the oppression of a gang of evil samurai led by nasty ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano, who previously starred with Kitano in Gohatto).