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He journeys to his old village looking for peace, but is pursued by the brother. In this japanese actioner, the brave blind swordsman zatoichi is assigned to escort a little boy to his fathers home. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. Later an enigmatic samurai joins them and helps fight off a second gang. Ichi takes a road trip with a young boy named ryota after promising the boys dying mother to escort him to his father. He made 24 installments between 1962 and 1973, and made the last one 16 years later in 1989. Zatoichi meets yojimbo 1970 criterion 1080p bluray. Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to taichi.
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