Japan Synopsis
座頭市関所破り
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
The 1963–1965 Japan Window
61 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Adventures of Zatoichi sits at position #42.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Adventures of Zatoichi. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Daiei Film
The 1960s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1960s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Adventures of Zatoichi premiered. 202 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,134 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (32nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Adventure productions specifically: #982 of 1,216 (top 81%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Daiei Film |
| Runtime | 1h 26m |
| Release Date | December 30, 1964 |
| IMDb | tt0164984 |