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.