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Zatoichi The Outlaw
is a 1967 Japanese ''chambara'' film directed by Satsuo Yamamoto and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei Film, Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures), and is the first film produced by Katsu Productions (Katsu's own company). ''Zatoichi the Outlaw'' is the sixteenth episode in the 26-part film series devoted to the character of Zatoichi. Plot In a rural village, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters Shushi Ohara (Suzuki; modeled after 18th-century agriculturalist Yagaku Ohara) a sword-less rōnin who defends himself against multiple attackers without killing them. Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the Abstinence, abstention from gambling, Alcoholic beverage#Alcohol consumption, drinking, and whoring. Cast *Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi *Rentarō Mikuni as Boss Asagoro *Kō Nishimura as Suga *Yuko Hamada as Oshino *Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Nisaburo *Takuya Fujioka as Zatosanji *Kenjiro Ishiyama as Tats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satsuo Yamamoto
was a Japanese film director. Yamamoto was born in Kagoshima City. After leaving Waseda University, where he had become affiliated with left-wing groups, he joined the Shochiku film studios in 1933, where he worked as an assistant director to Mikio Naruse. He followed Naruse when the latter moved to P.C.L. film studios (later Toho) and debuted as a director in 1937 with ''Ojōsan''. During World War II he directed the propaganda films ''Winged Victory'' and ''Hot Winds'' before being drafted and sent to China. After returning to Japan, Yamamoto's first film was the 1947 ''War and Peace'' (not based on the Leo Tolstoy novel), co-directed with Fumio Kamei. Being a communist and an active supporter of the union during the Toho labour strikes, he left the studio in 1948 after the strikes' forced ending and turned to independent filmmaking. The left-wing production company Shinsei Eiga-sha, formed by former Toho unionists, produced his commercially successful ''Street of Violenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |