Zatoichi 2003 123movies

Watch: 座頭市 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He’s destined for violent showdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents’ murder… Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano..
Plot: Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 49,901
	87% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 706 Popularity: 9.624 | TMDB

Reviews:

dancing Zatoichi
beat takeshi’s tribute to shintaro katsu has been a little controversial as one could have predicted. The final entry of the series, directed by shintaro katsu himself, was also controversial, since it is the bloodiest, most uncompromising, and most swiftly paced of that series, presenting us with pretty raw film with some unsettling themes. – ultimately, zatoichi leaves the world pretty much as corrupted by yakusa as he first finds it.

takeshi’s zatoichi comes to us very stylized – blond, with clean clothes, a very neatly crafted sword cane. The violence is augmented by CGI blood spurting (in the documentary accompanying the film on DVD, takeshi is frank that he wanted the blood to look a little phony). And then there is the dance segment at the end, foreshadowed throughout the film by rhythmic natural sounds of men and women at work.

After trying to get a hold on this film and its clearly complex relationship to the original series, through multiple viewings of the film, I think I’ve finally grasped that the dance sequence is really the heart of the whole film. no matter what you think of it in relationship to the rest of the film, it’s extremely entertaining ; so, perhaps that’s all we need to know about this film – perhaps it’s all we need to know about the original zatoichi series as well.

There is a strange question that recurs again and again in Takeshi’s films – what do we do to entertain ourselves when death is near, and there’s neither need nor possibility of accomplishing anything with a purpose? In most of Takeshi’s films, the proper response to that question is to live life like a circus. Here, obviously, salvation is to be found in dance. I’m not sure that these answers are satisfactory; but the question is too disturbing to ignore.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 2500000
Revenue 34196922
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
Director Takeshi Kitano
Writer Takeshi Kitano, Kan Shimozawa
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Yui Natsukawa
Country Japan
Awards 24 wins & 16 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 435 Advanced, Zeiss Super Speed, Cooke Varotal and Angenieux HR Lenses, Arriflex 535B, Zeiss Super Speed, Cooke Varotal and Angenieux HR Lenses
Laboratory Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Film Length 3,169 m (Sweden), 3,146 m (Switzerland)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Eastman EXR 50D 5245)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision Premier 2393)