The movie tells the story of a bunch of villains that "own" the lives of the people in some unspecified Japanese village and a "massageur" that seems to be the only one that can successfully put and end to it.
Perhaps because I am sick and tired of violence in real world, perhaps because the movie doesn't show there is anything new under the sun in terms of bad guys trying to make a living out of innocent people and all what it shows is that things like that happen also in the far east, to spend almost two hours to see how people got cut up in pieces by some sword men, even if they are samurai, did not appeal to me.
I have seen much more interesting Japanese movies than this one (A Woman in The Sand) (Shall we Dance?) (Dersu Usala). Definitely Zatôichi is not the type of movie I care about. 5 out of 10.
Perhaps because I am sick and tired of violence in real world, perhaps because the movie doesn't show there is anything new under the sun in terms of bad guys trying to make a living out of innocent people and all what it shows is that things like that happen also in the far east, to spend almost two hours to see how people got cut up in pieces by some sword men, even if they are samurai, did not appeal to me.
I have seen much more interesting Japanese movies than this one (A Woman in The Sand) (Shall we Dance?) (Dersu Usala). Definitely Zatôichi is not the type of movie I care about. 5 out of 10.
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