Seen everything by Shintarō Katsu?
If you've already watched everything Shintarō Katsu directed, here are 12 films from other directors that share the orbit of Zatoichi in Desperation — the catalog's mood-cluster and similarity-graph neighbours, filtered to exclude Shintarō Katsu's own filmography. Where to go next. (Also: Shintarō Katsu's full filmography · where to start with Shintarō Katsu.)
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
3am cultoutsiderplayful
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
playfuloutsiderraw
Zatoichi at Large
bittersweetslow burntender
Zatoichi the Fugitive
outsidertender
Zatoichi's Revenge
outsiderrawbittersweet
Zatoichi Challenged
neon soakedoutsiderplayful
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
outsidertenderbittersweet
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
paranoidoutsider
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
neon soakedplayfultender
Adventures of Zatoichi
cozyoutsiderplayful
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
bittersweetoutsiderplayful
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
playfulrawoutsider