It's easy to imagine Zatoichi, the mega-popular blind masseur/swordsman, as a man on a continual personality-altering pilgrimage, since in a series of films stretching from 1962 until 1979, he was almost exclusively played by one actor. Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi is a lover, athlete, drinker, gambler and killer. Moreover, in 1967, after fifteen films, Katsu started his own company, Katsu Productions, to make his own star vehicles.
Twenty-five of the 26 entries of the film's official series are collected in the Criterion Collection's lavish new box set (only "Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi," the second film Zatoichi film Katsu directed, is missing).
The set comprises 25 feature films. They've been known under various titles through the years:
The Tale of Zatoichi / The Tale of Zatoichi Continues / New Tale of Zatoichi / Zatoichi the Fugitive / Zatoichi on the Road / Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold / Zatoichi's Flashing Sword / Fight, Zatoichi, Fight / Adventures of Zatoichi / Zatoichi's Revenge / Zatoichi and the Doomed Man / Zatoichi and the Chess Expert / Zatoichi's Vengeance / Zatoichi's Pilgrimage / Zatoichi's Cane Sword / Zatoichi the Outlaw / Zatoichi Challenged / Zatoichi and the Fugitives / Samaritan Zatoichi / Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo / Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival / Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman / Zatoichi at Large / Zatoichi in Desperation / Zatoichi's Conspiracy
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