Great Flick
Has a cool intersting story but not as much action as Zatoichi meets Yojimbo.
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It was potentially a much better film than the previous year's "Zatoichi at the Fire Festival" that i saw a week ago. The plot was coherent and interesting and the action scenes were longer and better. However it was let down by poor lighting. A couple of times i had to pause the film and try to change the settings on the TV, as for a lot of the interior or nighttime shots its was impossible to see what was going on (and not in a cool intentional way). It may have been down to the quality of the actual print of the film but either way it really ruined parts of the film.
shareI don't think so, I believe they did it on purpose. As the series went on, the films got darker. If you look at earlier films like Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold or Zatoichi and the Doomed Man things look brighter and have higher contrast.
sharewell in that case it was a poor decision by the film makers.
sharethank god I finally see a topic on this, just to verify Im not crazy!
I've noticed the same thing, not so much that the film are darker so much as, it feels like the quality of the film is *beep*
I've seen all his 60s movies on KungFuHD and everything is so bright, vibrant, clear - like technicolor or almost day-glowish.
Then his movies from the 70s are darker, grittier, almost grainy.
I ordered the 70s flicks as a boxed set so I have them on DVD, it was quite a difference. Felt like I went from a PG world to an NC-17 /shrug
You guys really need to see it on the new blu-ray version. There's an almost film noir-ish quality to the lighting in the indoor/night scenes, and it looks so damn good. It's darker, but in a very cool intentional way; I could always tell what was going on. Obviously previous home video releases must not have done this film justice.
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It's been a long time since I watched this but I think there is now a massive boxset of them all so would be good to plough through all of them in order. Is that you're doing?
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Yeah basically. Well, I've been slowly making my way through them over the last couple years now; I was at #15 I think, just watching them on Hulu or whatever, when the boxset was announced, and I've since watched the next seven on blu-ray. By the time I finish the series I think, I'll be more than ready to just start all over again!
It really is a dream boxset. Amazing.
Now, if only the Zatoichi 100-episode TV series and the 1989 movie would get the same treatment. :p
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I definitely thought this was the better and more inspired of the two crossover films. Whereas Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo had nothing to do with the Kurosawa movies except that Mifune plays a character with similar mannerisms, this film is clearly a continuation (and perhaps conclusion) of the actual One-Armed Swordsman character (even if I don't know I'd consider it 'canon' in that universe).
The plotting is excellent, there are some dark, rather striking parts, but there's also a lot of great humour. It's visually exceptional. I really continue to be amazed how awesome these Zatoichi movies continue to be after this many entries, it's ridiculous.
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