The 2nd Zatoichi film picks up the story one year after the events of the first film. It places Ichi briefly behind closed doors, both domestically and politically. He becomes hunted for seeing too far into one, which brings danger to his experience of the other. Along the way another snippet of his past is revealed and becomes crucially important in the second half.
A new director brought a slightly different look and more significantly a different pace, but it works just as well as before.
It co-stars Tomisaburô Wakayama, which made me happy clap immensely.
This was the last of the series to be filmed in Black and White.
3½ noble deeds out of 5
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