![]() He has done audio commentaries for The Criterion Collection editions of SEVEN SAMURAI and THRONE OF BLOOD, taught a class on Japanese Cinema for 12 years at George Mason University and for 30 years has written the calendar notes for the repertory programs at New York City's famed Film Forum. His company R5/S8 Presents premiered the uncut version of Akira Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and relaunched Kihachi Okamoto's ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo 1970 ‘’ Directed by Kihachi Okamoto Synopsis With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Michael Jeck was the film programmer of the AFI Theater at the Kennedy Center for a decade, and for the first years of the AFI Silver Theatre. Cinema - Title - Z » Popular : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 123 Cyrillic Han Greek Hebrew Popular : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U. DIR/SCR Kihachi Okamoto SCR Tetsurô Yoshida PROD Shintarô Katsu. The pairing of these two characters and the actors playing them is fertile ground for raucous comedy and thrilling swordplay, complemented by the flair of director Kihachi Okamoto (in his only ZATOICHI film) and the marvelous widescreen photography of Kazuo Miyagawa (RASHOMON, YOJIMBO and five other ZATOICHI films). The 20th film in the long-running ZATOICHI series finds the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) crossing blades with a bodyguard-for-hire (Toshirô Mifune, heavily implied to be the same character he played in YOJIMBO) charged with protecting a young crime boss who is feuding with his father for control of a village. Special Features: Introduction by Michael Jeck on Aug.
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