The longest Zatoichi film so far and it definitely feels like it too. Zatoichi feels very out of character here, almost like he was a different character plopped into a story where "a" yojimbo but not "the" yojimbo is present. Further adding to things feeling "off" is a young female character whose name doesn't start with "O". That feels criminal to me

The longest Zatoichi film so far and it definitely feels like it too. Zatoichi feels very out of character here, almost like he was a different character plopped into a story where "a" yojimbo but not "the" yojimbo is present. Further adding to things feeling "off" is a young female character whose name doesn't start with "O". That feels criminal to me

Not one of my favs, but naturally still a great time
Mifune delivers a well decent performance, which is allows Katsu to take Ichi’s charisma to new levels for the first 40 mins or so 
Then the plot starts becoming more and more convoluted to the rest of the films slight decline 

There were some really good moments of course, good action, but it became hard to enjoy them as the film went on
For me it got progressively worse and worse, setting really interesting things up and then skipping out the parts that would be most interesting 
This made for a lowk annoying watch

But wow the highlights of this is definitely Okamoto’s direction 
Brought new life to some scenes that would otherwise be really dull in less intricately crafted films
Definitely hard carried this as it meant I didn’t mind being a bit let down by most narrative decisions 

Fun seeing these two on screen together, but overall one of my least favourite so far

Not one of my favs, but naturally still a great time
Mifune delivers a well decent performance, which is allows Katsu to take Ichi’s charisma to new levels for the first 40 mins or so 
Then the plot starts becoming more and more convoluted to the rest of the films slight decline 

There were some really good moments of course, good action, but it became hard to enjoy them as the film went on
For me it got progressively worse and worse, setting really interesting things up and then skipping out the parts that would be most interesting 
This made for a lowk annoying watch

But wow the highlights of this is definitely Okamoto’s direction 
Brought new life to some scenes that would otherwise be really dull in less intricately crafted films
Definitely hard carried this as it meant I didn’t mind being a bit let down by most narrative decisions 

Fun seeing these two on screen together, but overall one of my least favourite so far

The BOIS!!!

The BOIS!!!