Episode 20: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

After a two-year absence from screens, the blind swordsman returns in one of his best adventures. Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard—Toshiro Mifune’s scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend. This is the sole Zatoichi effort from celebrated director Kihachi Okamoto, who supplies satirical vision and stylistic panache worthy of the two iconic characters at the film’s center.

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Episode 1: The Tale of Zotoichi
Episode 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Episode 3: New Tale of Zatoichi
Episode 4: Zatoichi The Fugitive
Episode 5: Zatoichi On The Road
Episode 6: Zatoichi And The Chest Of Gold
Episode 7: Zatoichi’s Flashing
Episode 8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Episode 9: Adventures Of Zatoichi
Episode 10: Zatoichi’s Revenge
Episode 11: Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Episode 13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance
Episode 14: Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage
Episode 15: Zatoichi’s Cane Sword
Episode 16: Zatoichi The Outlaw
Episode 17: Zatoichi Challenged
Episode 18: Zatoichi And The Fugitives
Episode 19: Samaritan Zatoichi
Episode 21: Zatoichi Goes To The Fire Festival
Episode 22: Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

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