Zatoichi: Festival of Fire

aka: Zatoichi 21
Japan 1970, 96 minutes
Dir. Kenji Misumi
In Japanese with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Action/Adventure / Martial Arts

Feat. Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai

Aroview: One of the strongest of the later films in the 25-strong Zatoichi cycle (this is 21), with the blind masseur with the cane sword getting into labyrinthine trouble in a manner typical of the later films. Here, there's a geisha auction and a jealous husband as well as the usual evil bosses...