Zatoichi
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s. In Kitano's version, Zatôichi wanders into a town harassed by criminal gangs, and helps two geishas take revenge on the men who murdered their parents. His mission leads him to a final, bloody confrontation with the gang's mastermind and his hired assassin (Tadanobu Asano), a swordsman with a reputation as lethal as Zatôichi.
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Sonatine:,
Takeshi Kitano,
Aya Kokumai,
Tetsu Watanabe,
Masanobu Katsumura,
Susumu Terajima,
Ren Osugi,
Tonbo Zushi,
Kenichi Yajima,
Eiji Minakata,
Yuuki Natsusaka,
Houka Kinoshita,
Kanta Yamazaki,
Romu Kanda,
Kanji Tsuda,
Zatôichi:,
Takeshi Kitano,
Tadanobu Asano,
Michiyo Ookusu,
Gadarukanaru Taka,
Daigorô Tachibana,
Yuuko Daike,
Yui Natsukawa,
Ittoku Kishibe,
Saburo Ishikura,
Akira Emoto,
Ben Hiura,
Kohji Miura,
Hideboh,
Ron II,
Suji,
Noriyasu,
Makoto Ashikawa,
Edamame Tsumami,
Kosuke Ohta,
Yoshiyuki Morishita,
Naomasa Musaka,
Shoken Kunimoto,
Daigaku Sekine,
Koji Koike,
Koji Kiryu,
Taiki Kobayashi,
Ayano Yoshida,
Taichi Saotome,
Kanji Tsuda,
Ikki Goto,
Yoshio Nakamura,
Hiroaki Noguchi,
Shinichi Nakatsu,
Toru Yonezu,
P. Man,
Al Kitago,
Omiya Nomatsu,
Tsutomu Takeshige,
Ganbino Kobayashi,
Sammy Moremore Jr.,
Muhomatsu
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