Year			2003
Original lang.			Japanese
Country			Japan
Genre			Action
Rating			18A
Parents			Extreme violence
Length			1:56
Director			Takeshi Kitano
Writer			Takeshi Kitano
Company			Séville Pictures
Starring			Takeshi Kitano Tadanobu Asano Yui Natsukawa Michiyo Ookusu Gadarukanaru Taka Yuuko Daike Show more... Takeshi Kitano Tadanobu Asano Yui Natsukawa Michiyo Ookusu Gadarukanaru Taka Yuuko Daike Daigorô Tachibana Ittoku Kishibe Saburo Ishikura Akira Emoto

Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) is the blind wanderer with a distinctive red cane and a shock of platinum blonde hair. Softly-spoken, he makes a living as a masseur and by gambling, but his humble, shuffling façade masks a lightning-fast, deadly swordsman. When Zatoichi enters a remote mountain town he discovers that the Ginzo gang are extorting the townsfolk with the aid of a mighty samurai ronin, Hattori (Tadanobu Asano). Quickly making friends with talkative fellow gambler Shinkichi (Guadalcanal Taka), Zatoichi then meets two mysterious geishas (Daigoro Tachibana and Yuko Daike) who have sworn to avenge their parent's deaths. As the Ginzo gang tighten their hold on the town, the stage is set for a violent and bloody confrontation.