Updated and refined 80s versoin of Zatoichi
The last of the original Zatoichi releases came out in 1973 featuring Shintaro Katsu in his most famous role. He then went to TV where the Zatoichi series ran from 1974-79. In 1989 he came back to the role with this film Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally made by his own Katsu Promotion, which had made the last couple Zatoichi films and some of Katsu’s other creative works.<br /><br />The 1980s were a very bad time for Japanese cinema. The industry lost many of its audience to anime and TV and in turn attempted to replicate those genres to horrible results. Many period pieces looked like they were kids TV shows or manga with outrageous outfits and ridiculous villains. Katsu however stuck to a traditional view rather than going with the trends of the time.<br /><br />What Darkness Is His Ally does is take all of the common Zatoichi tropes and tries to refine them. So for example, the Yakuza (gangster) bosses are more ruthless. The corrupt government official that works with them is driven insane. The ronin (masterless) samurai that Zatoichi meets and will eventually have a confrontation with is more distraught than usual. The sword fights are bigger and better and occur more often. It’s like a super sized Zatoichi film, and it actually works.
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