Zatoichi Challenged
Zatoichi Challenged

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Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Zatoichi Challenged:

Shintarō Katsu
Jūshirō Konoe
Miwa Takada
Yukiji Asaoka
Mikiko Tsubouchi
Mie Nakao

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Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts.

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User Review - 10/10 by Private UAwesome. You can't go wrong with any of the Zatoichi movies, I've seen about 10 of them. This one has a great extended climax in which Ichi first kills about 50 guys and then has a duel in the snow. Very entertaining movie.
User Review - 10/10 by Roman ALike many of the Zatoichi movies, this one has plenty to offer, though a number of the elements (particularly the kid) are just annoying. And yet this movie stands out for me, not simply among the Zatoichi installments, but among the other films of the samurai genre. And it stands out because of one feature: The sword fighting in this one is restrained; there is fairly little of Zatoichi staggering around, cutting up hundreds of Yakuza cannon fodder or corrupt officials. Most of that takes place off screen. The centerpiece, instead, is the final, climactic battle between Zatoichi and a single samurai, whom Zatoichi has come to know in the course of the movie, and with whom he has developed a rapport of mutual respect. This scene is one of the most beautifully choreographed fight scenes I have seen anywhere; but that is not why it stands out. It stands out because, among all the portrayals of samurai I have seen in various media, this is the only one I have seen in which the samurai code itself is exposed as amoral. In a sense, this should be obvious: it is a bloody code that demands execution and suicide on command. But it is, also, a code extremely difficult to follow, and the strength of character required of a good samurai is certainly deserving of some glorification, which it amply receives all over the place. There are, of course, plenty of portrayals of corrupt samurai (in other Zatoichi installments, among other films). Sometimes these go so far as to attack the entire social framework of the samurai as hopelessly corrupt. But those criticisms almost inevitably portray the corruption as evil in opposition to a norm, and the norm is set by the samurai code. The corrupt samurai is evil precisely because he is corrupt, because he fails to live by his code, because he is concerned with wealth, or with love, or with glory more than with honor. The criticism in this film is different. Zatoichi faces an opponent who is, in all respects, an upright samurai. And it is a strength of the film that it establishes the samurai as honorable: he may not be the most likable character, but as far as his honor goes, he seems beyond reproach. What he lacks is not honor: it is morality. And this (aside from the choreography and the snow) is why the final showdown with Zatoichi is one of the most powerful scenes in samurai cinema: Zatoichi calls out his opponent not over his lack of honor, but precisely over his obsession with honor. The samurai has orders from the Shogun, and he must--as we know from every other samurai movie--obey those orders. But this is one case where obeying those orders would require him to kill an innocent man. And here the honor code fails: to be honorable and to live by the code is to surrender honor and to do evil. We--and the samurai--thus find a moral, but very un-samurai image of honor at the climactic moment when Zatoichi, to save the innocent man, flings away his sword in the middle of a fight, leaving himself defenseless. By showing that genuine honor lies in being able to turn away from duty, Zatoichi essentially throws the entire samurai genre into turmoil. Whatever the failings of this film, this unique touch makes it worth seeing over and over (well, at least the ending--not the very ending, mind you; that part is annoying as hell).
User Review - 10/10 by William WAn enigmatic samurai repeatedly crosses Ichi's path (with that new sword from the previous film) as the hero becomes saddled with, and attached to, an orphan. Along the way the audience sees yet another morality question: Should the long arm of the law reach for blind, unswerving justice or redemptive morality? The opening song is sung by Katsu-san himself, doing justice to the musicality instilled by his father. Another song is sung by the pop-singer Nakao Mie. This entry has brilliant cinematography, strong secondary stories, and excellent acting by supporting cast. The final showdown is considered one of the best of the series. The orphan boy Ryota is played by Saitô Shinya - according to the book World Filmography: 1967; page 423.
User Review - 8/10 by Michael LThe conclusive battles of the Zatoichi films continue to get more ridiculous...
User Review - 8/10 by Anthony VI really enjoyed this one (despite the fact that there is a somewhat annoying kid in it). It's got a lot of heart, some good old emotional conflict and hands down the best duel in the series so far.
User Review - 8/10 by Niklas SKenji Misumi has always been the right guy to call when you need a well crafted samurai movie. While you watch this episode of the Zatoichi series you might find a lot of similarities between this and Misumi's other series "Lone Wolf & Cub". This is way tamer but still a bit more ranchy when it comes to other Zatoichi movies. This is how I like them.
User Review - 8/10 by Jean-François SMaybe the best of the one's directed by Kenji Misumi, excepting perhaps the first one.
User Review - 8/10 by Dave JWednesday, March 28, 2012 (1967) Zatoichi Challenged (In Japanese with English subtitles) ACTION "The Blind Swordsman" also known as Ichi, who decides to stay at one of the local villages inns for the night bumps into a mother who's dying, to impose on a last request only to deliver her only son to her natural father. And along the way, hitches a ride with some people going to the exact location and at the same time comes across an official who's done some deceptive practices of taking over. And another master Swordsman whose been ordered by the state to execute specific people, one of them being is the boys father whose only crime was to be an artist who was ordered to draw some illegal designs, unapproved by the state. The only problem is that they're too many subplots, but as usual, humanity personal scenes hold the film together! 3 out of 4 Sub plots
User Review - 8/10 by Orlok WZatoichi Challenged starts off rather differently than most other of the series with a narration and song by Shintaro himself but the other than that, the rest of the film is typical Zatoichi cinema: great fight scenes, a great performance by Katsu, and a well-told story. What's most commendable about the film is the final fight scene which might be Ichi's longest fight scene against a single opponent. It's truly a beauty to behold and it constitutes one of the best fight scenes of the entire series.
User Review - 8/10 by Chris BThis 17th film in the Zatoichi saga is another solid film but several of the premises are repeated from an earlier film inlcuding the fufilling a dying man's last wish, protecting a child, and of course angering the local government entities and bringing upon himself their wrath. Zatoichi Challenged is a lot more fun and lighthearted though as the little boy is older than the previous child, who was literally a newborn baby, and provides some funny and comedic relief in their interactions. While not as original as other films in the series there is still a lot to like here and some great moments to find throughout it's running time.

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