Zatoichi
(DVD)

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Contributors
Katsu, Shintarō, 1931-1997, film producer,
Kubodera, Ikuo, film producer.
Asai, Shozaburo, film producer,
Takamori, Tomio, film producer.
Zaizen, Sadao, film producer.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
Format
DVD
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
ISBN
9781604658002, 1604658002
Physical Desc
17 DVDs + 9 Blu-rays (2,197 min.) : DVD video, Blu-ray, sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 19 cm).
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Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
Edition
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Language
jpn
ISBN
9781604658002, 1604658002
UPC
715515112116

Notes

General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Originally released as 25 individual motion pictures from 1962 to 1973.
General Note
Based on the novel by Shimozawa Kan.
General Note
Special features: New digital restoration of all twenty-five films, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-rays. Disc 25: The blind swordsman (a 1978 documentary about Zatoichi portrayer and filmmaker Shintaro Katsu). Disc 26: Serialized success (interview with Asian-film critic Tony Rayns on the Zatoichi series); Trailers (theatrical trailers for all 15 Zatoichi movies); New English subtitle translation. Booklet featuring essays, synopses, the original short story by Kan Shimozawa and twenty-five new illustrations.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematographers, Chikashi Makiura, Shozo Honda, Kazuo Miyagawa, Yasukazu Takemura, Fujio Morita, Hiroshi Imai, Senkichiro Takeda ; art directors, Akira Naito, Seiichi Ota, Yoshinobu Nishioka, Shigeru Kato, Shigenori Shimoishizaka ; music, Akira Ifukube, Ichiro Saito, Sei Ikeno, Taichiro Kosugi, Seitaro Omori, Hajime Kaburagi, Isao Tomita, Kunihiko Murai, Mitsuo Miyamoto ; editors, Kanji Suganuma, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Yamada, Toshio Taniguchi, Yoshiharu Hayashi.
Participants/Performers
The tale of Zatoichi: Shintaro Katsu, Masayo Banri, Ryuzo Shimada, Gen Mitamura, Shigeru Amachi, Michiro Minami, Eijiro Yanagi, Toshio Chiba, Manabu Morita, Yoichi Funaki, Eigoro Onoe, Ikuko Mori, Chitose Maki, Kanae Kobayahsi. The tale of Zatoichi continues: Shintaro Katsu, Kenzaburo Jo, Yoshie Mizutani, Masayo Banri, Yutaka Nakamura, Eijiro Yanagi. New tale of Zatoichi: Shintaro Katsu, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Seizaburo Kawazu, Mieko Kondo, Chitose Maki, Matasaburo Niwa, Yutaka Nakamura, Fujio Suga.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi the fugitive: Shintaro Katsu, Miwa Takada, Masayo Banri, Junichiro Narita, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Jutaro Hojo, Hiroshi Nawa, Toru Abe. Zatoichi on the road: Shintaro Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Ryuzo Shimada, Matasaburo Niwa, Yutaka Nakamura, Reiko Fujiwara, Sonosuke Sawamura, Shosaku Sugiyama, Yoshio Yoshida. Zatoichi and the chest of gold: Shintaro Katsu, Shogo Shimada, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Machiko Hasegawa, Kenzaburo Jo, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Hikosaburo Kataoka, Matasaburo Niwa, Saburo Date.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi's flashing sword: Shintaro Katsu, Naoko Kubo, Mayumi Nagisa, Ryutaro Gomi, Tatsuo Endo, Yasushi Sugita, Yutaka Nakamura, Bokuzen Hidari, Ryosuke Kagawa, Koichi Mizuhara, Takashi Edajima, Shintaro Nanjo, Hachiro Misumi, Yoichi Funaki, Ikuko Mori. Fight, Zatoichi, fight: Shintaro Katsu, Hizuru Takachiho, Nobuo Kaneko, Yoshi Kato, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Jutaro Hojo, Koji Fujiyama, Toranosuke Tennoji, Ikuko Mori, Nobu Kawaguchi, Teruko Oomi. Adventures of Zatoichi: Shintaro Katsu, Miwa Takada, Eiko Taki, Mikijiro Hira, Akitake Kono, Tomosaburo II, Koichi Mizuhara, Kichijiro Ueda, Jotaro Senba, Nakajiro Tomita, Ikuko Mori, Yusaku Terashima, Daimaru Nakata, Racket Nakata, Tokio Oki, Hajime Koshikawa.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi's revenge: Shintaro Katsu, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Norihei Miki, Takeshi Kato, Fujio Harumoto, Mayumi Kurata, Sachiko Kobayashi, Sanpei Taira, Saburo Date, Sonosuke Sawamura, Koji Fujiyama, Yusaku Terashima. Zatoichi and the doomed man: Shintaro Katsu, Kanbi Fujiyama, Eiko Taki, Masako Akeboshi, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Ryuzo Shimada, Koichi Mizuhara, Manabu Morita, Gen Harada, Sachiko Murase, Kazuo Moriuchi, Tokio Oki, Hajime Koshikawa, Yukio Horikita. Zatoichi and the chess expert: Shintaro Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizuru Hayashi, Kaneko Iwasaki, Gaku Yamamoto, Taro Marui, Ryutaro Gomi, Rokko Toura, Fujio Suga, Jutaro Hojo, Takuya Fujioka, Saburo Date, Ichiro Yamamoto, Tatsuo Endo, Keiko Koyanagi, Kanae Kobayashi, Naoko Fujiyama.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi's vengeance: Shintaro Katsu, Shigeru Amachi, Mayumi Ogawa, Kei Sato, Jun Hamamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Yukiko Komura, Michi Azuma, Masanori Machida, Koichi Mizuhara, Saburo Date, Kazue Tamaki, Yokio Horikita, Gen Kimura, Jun Fujikada, Sumao Ishihara, Hideo Kuroki, Kazuko Taniguchi. Zatoichi's pilgrimage: Shintaro Katsu, Michiyo Yasuda, Takahiko Tono, Isao Yamagata, Ryutaro Gomi, Jotaro Senba, Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Masao Mishima, Manabu Morita, Saburo Date, Yukio Horikita, Shosaku Sugiyama, Yusaku Terashima, Seishiro Hara, Jun Katsumura, Tokio Oki, Ryonosuke Azuma, Keiko Sono, Masako Morishita, Kanae Kobayashi. Zatoichi's cane sword: Shintaro Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Kiyoko Suizenji, Makoto Fujita, Eijiro Tono, Junichiro Yamashita, Ryutaro Gomi, Fujio Suga, Masako Akeboshi, Masumi Harukawa, Tatsuo Endo, Koichi Mizuhara, Saburo Date, Gen Takasugi, Eigoro Onoe, Yusaku Terashima, Gen Kimura, Ryuji Kita.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi the outlaw: Shintaro Katsu, Rentaro Mikuni, Ko Nishimura, Yuko Hamada, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Takuya Fujioka. Zatoichi challenged: Shintaro Katsu, Jushiro Konoe, Miwa Takada, Yukiji Asaoka, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Mie Nakao, Takao Ito, Asao Koike, Midori Isomura, Tatsuo Matsumura, Eitaro Ozawa, Jotaro Senba, Kojiro Kusanagi, Kenzo Tabu, Osami Nabe, Akihisa Toda, Koji Fujiyama, Koichi Mizuhara, Ikuko Mori. Zatoichi and the fugitives: Shintaro Katsu, Yumiko Nogawa, Kayo Mikimoto, Kyosuke Machida, Takashi Shimura, Shobun Inoue, Hosei Komatsu, Jutaro Hojo, Jotaro Senba, Hiroshi Hijikata, Koichi Mizuhara, Seishiro Hara, Shozo Nanbu, Ichiro Yamamoto, Ryuji Funahashi, Sachio Horikita, Hajime Koshikawa.
Participants/Performers
Samaritan Zatoichi: Shintaro Katsu, Yoshiko Mita, Makoto Sato, Ko Nishimura, Takyua Fujioka, Chocho Miyako, Akira Shimizu, Ryutaro Gomi, Takeshi Date, Rokko Toura, Ryoichi Tamagawa, Machiko Soga, Osamu Ookawa, Shosaku Sugiyama, Gen Kimura, Yasuhiro Minakami, Akira Moroguchi. Zatoichi meets Yojimbo: Shintaro Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa, Masakane Yonekura, Shin Kishida, Kanjuro Arashi, Shigeru Koyama, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Minori Terada, Hideo Sunazuka, Daigo Kusano, Toshiro Mifune. Zatoichi goes to the fire festival: Shintaro Katsu, Reiko Ohara, Peter, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Ko Nishimura, Ryunosuke Kaneda, Kunie Tanaka, Osami Nabe, Jun Nagasawa, Toshie Shoji, Reiji Shoji, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Nakadai.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi meets the one-armed swordsman: Shintaro Katsu, Yuko Hama, Koji Nanbara, Michie Terada, Toru Abe, Takamaru Sasaki, Tokue Hanazawa, Shinsuke Minami, Shiro Ito, Mutsuo Totsuka, Jimmy Wang. Zatoichi at large: recited by Katsutaro Tamagawa ; Shintaro Katsu, Hisaya Morishige, Etsushi Takahashi, Naoko Otani, Nikaku Shofukutei, Ikkaku Tanabe, Toshie Shoji, Reiji Shoji, Keizo Kanie, Shigako Shimegi, Takumi Shinjo, Rentaro Mikuni. Zatoichi in desperation: Shintaro Katsu, Kiwako Taichi, Kyoko Yoshizawa, Joji Takagi, Asao Koike, Masumi Harukawa, Naoe Fushimi, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Shuji Otaki, Jukei Fujioka, Shinkan Koume, Terou Matsuyama, Kazuko Tajima, Rokku Furukawa, Katsuo Nakamur.
Participants/Performers
Zatoichi's conspiracy: Shintaro Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Takashi Shimura, Kei Sato, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Tatsuo Endo, Shiro Kishibe, Rie Yokoyama, Gen Takamori, Naoyuki Asahina, Osamu Sakai, Eiji Okada.
Description
The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen's great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. Features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, starring Shintaro Katsu, collected in one package for the first time.
Target Audience
Rating: Not rated.
System Details
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 2.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural.
System Details
Blu-ray; enhanced for widescreen (16:9) presentation; requires Blu-ray player.
Language
Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Katsu, S., Kubodera, I., Asai, S., Takamori, T., Zaizen, S., Okuda, H., Nagata, M., Tsuji, H., Nishioka, H., Inuzuka, M., Umebayashi, K., Hoshikawa, S., Ota, A., Yoshida, T., Matsumura, M., Itō, D., Takaiwa, H., Shindō, K., Kasahara, R., Nakajima, T., Matsumoto, K., Saruwaka, K., Naoi, K., Sugiura, H., Okamoto, K., Yamada, T., Hattori, Y., Misumi, K., Mori, K., Tanaka, T., Yasuda, K., Ikehiro, K., Inoue, A., Yamamoto, S., Banri, M., Amachi, S., Yanagi, E., Wakayama, T., Mizutani, Y., Kawazu, S., Kondo, M., Takada, M., Kobayashi, K., Abe, T., Fujimura, S., Shimada, S., Date, S., Kubo, N., Hidari, B., Kaneko, N., Katō, Y., Hira, M., Kōno, A., Ueda, K., Miki, N., Katō, T., Fujiyama, K., Murase, S., Yamamoto, G., Marui, T., Toura, M., Yamamoto, I., Ogawa, M., Satō, K., Hamamura, J., Yoshikawa, M., Azuma, M., Ōkusu, M., Yamagata, I., Igawa, H., Tanaka, K., Mishima, M., Fujita, M., Tōno, E., Harukawa, M., Mikuni, R., Nishimura, K., Hamada, Y., Hosokawa, T., Asaoka, Y., Koike, A., Matsumura, T., Ozawa, E., Kusanagi, K., Nogawa, Y., Machida, K., Mita, Y., Miyako, C., Wakao, A., Takizawa, O., Yonekura, M., Arashi, K., Koyama, S., Sunazuka, H., Kusano, D., Mifune, T., Yoshiyuki, K., Kaneda, R., Mori, M., Nakadai, T., Ochiai, S., Wang, Y., Morishige, H., Takahashi, E., Taichi, K., Tajima, K., Toake, Y., Shimura, T., Tsuchiya, Y., Okada, E., Makiura, C., Miyagawa, K., Nishioka, Y., Ifukube, A., Saitō, I., Ōmori, S., Kaburagi, H., Tomita, I., Murai, K., Nathan, J., Rayns, T., Shimozawa, K., & Shimozawa, K. (2013). Zatoichi (Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.). The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shintarō Katsu et al.. 2013. Zatoichi. The Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Shintarō Katsu et al.. Zatoichi The Criterion Collection, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Katsu, Shintarō, et al. Zatoichi Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition., The Criterion Collection, 2013.

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