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The second installment in the long-running action series finds Zatoichi,
the blind masseur and gambler, hired to massage a distingushed lord. Our hero
soon discovers the lord to be insane and totally out of control. Once he
leaves, the lord's vassels are dispatche to silence the blind man as he knows
too much. The samurai are no match for Zatoichi as he repels every attempt
at his life with the lightning fast draw of his cane sword. However, the
wholesale slaughter of his samurai vassels doesn't deter the lord from enlisting
the help of local gangsters to stop Zatoichi. They too find the blind man
no easy target.
Memories of his past are later rekindled when Zatoichi confronts yet another foe, the mysterious one-armed samurai name Yoshiro. It seems Zatoich and Yoshiro were once suitors of the same woman, and must finally deal with an unsettled score. The part of Yoshiro is played by Shintaro Katsu's real-life brother, the late Tomisaburo Wakayama who at the time went by the name Kenzaburo Joh. Wakayama later gained fame in the ultra violent Lone Wolf samurai film series. B&W/73 min. - English subtitles (1962)$19.99
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