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 ...

Star Shintaro Katsu sits in the director's chair for this psychedelic and unremittingly bleak entry in the Zatoichi series, which is unlike any other in its grind-house grimness. A tale of innocence ...

Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz and Yuko Shimizu have provided artwork for a new Zatoichi box set. Criterion has gathered 25 top artists to illustrate its 27-disc Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman DVD/Blu-ray ...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another | dG1fZmdoYllKMm1tZHM Comedian’s arrest over social media posts sparks warning ...

In a marketplace already glutted with Hero and The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, how’s a samurai soap opera to distinguish itself? In the case of The Twilight Samurai, it’s by playing down the action and ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...