Kan Shimozawa — Playwright (29)
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り
director: 安田公义 actor: 胜新太郎 / 十朱幸代 …
other title: 新座头市物语：笠间的血祭 / 新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り …
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.
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Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) [Movie] Douban
新選組始末記
director: 三隅研次 actor: 岚三右卫门 / 伊达三郎 …
other title: 新选组始末录 / 新選組始末記 …
幕末的德川幕府，因列强的压迫下，力量衰减，从此一蹶不振。就在此时，由芹泽鸭、近藤勇、土方岁三、山南敬助、冲田总司等人组织了“新选组”共同保卫幕府的政权。浪人山崎烝（市川雷藏饰），因被新选组局长近藤勇（城健三朗饰）的个人魅力所折服。不顾伴侣的强烈反对下，踌躇滿志的向新选组毛遂自荐，要求加入。随之山崎以他超群的剑法，很快的得到近藤和土方等人的信赖，而前局长芹泽鸭在新选组内部革命时遭到了处决，正好被山崎见状，从此对新选组有所顾忌，“池田屋事件”中，山崎为了保护的同伴，不得不举刀来对抗在池田屋的讨幕人士，事件之后他放弃了以前的伴侣，随着新选组扬长而去。
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Masseur Ichi, the Fugitive (1963) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市兇狀旅
director: 田中徳三 actor: 胜新太郎 / 高田美和 …
other title: 座头市凶状旅 / 座頭市兇狀旅 …
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.
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Zatoichi at Large (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市御用旅
director: 森一生 actor: 胜新太郎 / 三国连太郎 …
other title: 座头市御用旅 / 座頭市御用旅 …
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
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Zatoichi: A Tough Kite (1964) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市あばれ凧
director: 池广一夫 actor: 胜新太郎 / 远藤太津朗 …
other title: 座头市恣意的风筝 / 座頭市あばれ凧 …
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.
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Zatoichi Meets The One-Armed Swordsman (1971) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
新座頭市・破れ！唐人剣
director: 安田公义 actor: 胜新太郎 / 王羽 …
other title: 座头市与独臂刀 / 新座頭市・破れ！唐人剣 …
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市あばれ火祭り
7.0 (6 ratings) director: 三隅研次 actor: 胜新太郎 / 大原丽子 …
other title: 座头市大战火神庙 / 座頭市あばれ火祭り …
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.
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The Blind Swordsman's Revenge (1965) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座头市二段斩り
director: 井上昭 actor: 胜新太郎 / 三木纪平 …
other title: 座头市二段斩 / 座头市二段斩り …
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
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Zatoichi's Spurting Blood Road (1967) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市血煙り街道
director: 三隅研次 actor: 胜新太郎 / 近卫十四郎 …
other title: 座头市血烟街道 / 座頭市血煙り街道 …
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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Darkness Is His Ally (1989) [Movie] Douban
座頭市
9.0 (6 ratings) director: 胜新太郎 actor: 胜新太郎 / 樋口可南子 …
other title: 座头市 / 座頭市 …
盲剑客座头市来到一座被黑帮赌场控制的小镇，他遇到了两名艺伎，她们的父母被残忍杀害，她们决定进行复仇，在小镇上掀起一场风波。座头市答应帮助她们，为正义而奋战。服部源之助也是一名高强的剑客，一直被他的痛苦过去所折磨，他也怀着刺杀任务来到小镇。小镇陷入暴雨将至的紧张气氛中……
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Zatoichi in Desperation (1972) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
新座頭市物語・折れた杖
director: 胜新太郎 actor: 胜新太郎 / 太地喜和子 …
other title: 新座头市物语：断杖 / 新座頭市物語・折れた杖 …
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.
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Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市の歌が聞える
director: 田中德三 actor: 胜新太郎 / 天知茂 …
other title: 听见座头市的歌声 / 座頭市の歌が聞える …
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座头市逆手斩り
director: 森一生 actor: 胜新太郎 / 藤山宽美 …
other title: 座头市逆手斩 / 座头市逆手斩り …
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
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The Blind Swordsman's Cane Sword (1967) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市鉄火旅
director: 安田公义 actor: 胜新太郎 / 藤村志保 …
other title: 座头市铁火旅 / 座頭市鉄火旅 …
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next....