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Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman

While traveling the Japanese countryside the blind masseur Zatoichi comes across the One Armed Swordsman, Wang Kang, who is in hiding and protecting a child from a corrupt Japanese priest and a group of yakuza. Zatoichi and Wang Kang, each from very different worlds yet heroic swordsman in their own right, at first seem to get along but a language barrier and a series of misunderstanding leads Kang to distrust Ichi. Soon the two heroes are at each other throats while each attempts to stop the true villains from taking the child.

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Cast & Crew See All

Shintarô Katsu
Zatôichi
Jimmy Wang Yu
Wang Kong
Michie Terada
Yone

Awards

  • 1972 - Mainichi Film Concours - Best Actor - winner

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