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Friday 16 January 2015

Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)

The blind swordsman's 21st film isn't an overly bloody affair, but there’s a fine balance of action and characterisation and even some very funny comedy during a frenetic bath house fight.
It was celebrated director Kenji Misumi’s sixth Zatoichi; he was the man that started the series eight years previously. He’s better known in the West as director of four of the Lone Wolf and Cub films.
For a series to still be this good after so many entries isn't unique to Japan but they are surely the masters at it. Most struggle after a trilogy.

3½ expensive wind chimes out of 5
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3 comments:

  1. cuckoo7 March 2013 at 16:18

    Most can't make it past the 2nd one without sucking.

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  2. Dr Faustus7 March 2013 at 16:27

    Uwe Boll dreams of making a first one that doesn't suck.

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  3. cuckoo7 March 2013 at 16:30

    VOD tried recommending a film to me that said "Uwe Boll Presents..."

    I laughed and watched two Frasier reruns instead. XD

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