Thursday, August 19, 2021

Zatoichi's Vengeance, 1966, #13 in the series

Zatoichi is a very nice blind masseur who kills people. Lots of them. The weakness of this movie is that he's so good at it and is pretty much invincible, why hold back?

There was one reason. A blind priest tells him that he's corrupting a boy he's befriended. It's like if Alan Ladd hesitated to kill Jack Palance because he didn't want Brandon de Wilde to think shooting people was good.

It's not an issue today, but children should be taught not to physically cling to unrelated men when they're in the middle of a swordfight.

Available on the Criterion Channel.

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