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Title Zatoichi meets Yojimbo
Originaltitle: Zatôichi to Yôjinbô
Regie: Kihachi Okamoto
Darsteller: Shintarô Katsu, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa
Erscheinungsjahr: 1970
Land: Japan
Stichwort: blind, Zatoichi
Release: 00.00.0000

Handlung
Control of the village is split between a former travelling merchant Eboshiya and his son Masagoro. Eboshiya befriends Zatoichi, and seeks his aid against Masagoro's minder, the drunken samurai Yojimbo the "crooked crook". When a masseur is killed, amidst rumours that a large amount of gold has been secreted in the village, the two factions begin to size each other up. It is at this point that Masagoro's younger son suddenly decides his father needs more protection and calls on the services of the contract killer Kuzuryu. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.


Weitere Info
Yojimbo is a 1961 jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a ronin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the deadly newcomer as a bodyguard (yojimbo in Japanese).

The 1970 film Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo also features Mifune as a similar character. It is the twentieth of a series of movies featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi. Although Mifune is clearly not playing the same man (his name is Sassa, and his personality and background are different in many key respects), the movie's title and some of its content do intend to suggest the image of the two iconic jidaigeki characters confronting each other. Incident at Blood Pass, made in the same year, also stars Mifune in a role similar to that of Yojimbo. (Wikipedia)


Filmliste
1962: Zatoichi 1 - The Tale of Zatoichi
1962: Zatoichi 2 - The Tale of Zatoichi continues
1963: Zatoichi 3 - New Tale of Zatoichi
1963: Zatoichi 4 - The Fugitive
1963: Zatoichi 5 - On The Road
1964: Zatoichi 6 - Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
1964: Zatoichi 7 - Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
1964: Zatoichi 8 - Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
1964: Zatoichi 9 - Adventures of Zatoichi
1965: Zatoichi 10 - Zatoichi's Revenge
1965: Zatoichi 11 - Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
1965: Zatoichi 12 - Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
1966: Zatoichi 13 - Zatoichi's Vengeance
1966: Zatoichi 14 - Zatoichi's Ocean Voyage
1967: Zatoichi 15 - Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1967: Zatoichi 16 - Zatoichi the Outlaw
1967: Zatoichi 17 - Zatoichi Challenged
1968: Zatoichi 18 - Zatoichi and the Fugitives
1968: Zatoichi 19 - Samaritan Zatoichi
1970: Zatoichi 20 - Zatoichi meets Yojimbo
1970: Zatoichi 21 - The Festival of Fire
1971: Zatoichi 22 - Zatoichi meets the One-Armed Swordsman
1972: Zatoichi 23 - Zatoichi at Large
1972: Zatoichi 24 - Zatoichi in Desperation
1974: Zatoichi 25 - Zatoichi's Conspiration
1989: Zatoichi 26 - Darkness is his Ally
2003: Zatoichi – Der blinde Samurai

Fernsehserie

Von 1974 bis 1979 wurde in Japan eine 100-teilige Zatōichi-Fernsehserie in vier Staffeln produziert.
US-amerikanische Neuverfilmung

1989 ließ sich Hollywood von den Geschichten um den blinden japanischen Masseur inspirieren und produzierte die von Phillip Noyce gedrehte Neuverfilmung Blinde Wut (1989), mit Rutger Hauer in der Rolle eines blinden Vietnamveteranen.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zat%C5%8Dichi


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