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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Directed byKenji Misumi
Written byShintaro Katsu
Takayuki Yamada
Kan Shimozawa (story)
Produced byShintaro Katsu
Hiroyoshi Nishioka (asst. producer)
StarringShintaro Katsu
Tatsuya Nakadai
CinematographyKazuo Miyagawa
Music byAkira Ifukube
Release date
  • 12 August 1970 (1970-08-12)
Running time
96 min
CountryJapanese
LanguageJapan

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival is a 1970 Japanese film directed by Kenji Misumi. It is the twenty-first of a series of films featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi. The main character is based on a fictional character, a blind masseur and swordmaster. He was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa and set during the late Edo period (1830s and 1840s).

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival". The Criterion Collection.