Zatouichi

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Zatoichi

This one-shot adapts two films: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro). The Ballad of Zatoichi: Zatoichi encounters a dying man who asks him to deliver a bag of money to "Taichi." Zatoichi has no idea who this is, but when he arrives at a small town plagued by gangsters, he discovers that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his journey, he also meets a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his life of killing. While trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must decide whether to stay and protect the town or move on. Zatoichi's Pilgrimage: After being ambushed in a small village terrorized by a gang of thieves, the legendary blind swordsman Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man in self-defense. As fate would have it, his travels soon lead him to Okichi, a woman who Zatoichi learns is the sister of the young man whose life he took. In anger, Okichi attacks the blind swordsman, but her conscience gets the better of her, and as she tends to his wounds, the two fall in love.

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