Zatoichi meets the One Armed Swordsman

You limp through rain-slick streets with a clattering cane, delivering rubs that double as sword checks, when a child’s scream pulls you off course. A one-armed master and his orphaned ward are tangled with ronin who left a village in smoke, and the blade work now demands your third eye. Critics note the fusion of blind intuition against stylized combat grids. The rain turns the road into a blindfold you can taste.

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Kimiyoshi Yasuda directed Zatoichi meets the One Armed Swordsman in 1971. See Kimiyoshi Yasuda's full filmography, where to start with Kimiyoshi Yasuda, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kimiyoshi Yasuda.

Zatoichi meets the One Armed Swordsman was released in 1971 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 94 minutes.