E1 ENTERTAINMENT ZATOICHI Meets The ONE-Armed Swordsman

My family has long been Japanese drama and samurai movie watchers, and big fans of the Zatoichi series. The best in the series are the first three movies, Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, and The One-Armed Swordsman.Similar in plot to all the others, One-Armed Swordsman leads you from Zato meeting his future foe, to a new town where he must out-wit gangsters, to the final showdown with swords drawn and steel flashing.Delivery of the DVD was timely, the disc and case in excellent condition, and reasonably priced.

This movie has the flavor of a Hong Kong flick, with lots of martial arts and high jumps and just lots of action! A family of Chinese with a visiting martial artist are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Soon the artist, with the son of the family, are on the run - wanted by just about everybody. Of course, the boy runs into Zatoichi who ends up trying to help. The language barrier ends up being a real barrier in the movie, as the Chinese martial artist knows no Japanese - in fact he speaks Chinese and subtitles in Japanese appear on the right side of the screen - which is kind of cool. The ending is not a very happy one, even if the bad guys all die.My DVD came with extras, such as trailers and program notes that explained, for example, a little about the Chinese language. Pretty awesome DVD and awesome movie!

this is a very rare opportunity to have shintaro katsu and wang yu together in one movie that is why this movie is so special. it is like putting 2 superstars in one movie. what is nice about original movies like this is that they do not employ computer graphics in its action sequences unlike today where the movie is so fake and ridiculously unbelievable. i prefer these 1960s zatoichi movies rather than their t.v. series version because the stories are better and it is in widescreen. i am collecting all these vintage 1960s zatoichi movies and still looking for the very first motion picture of zatoichi, anyone who knows where i can get it?

The story is weak n there is no plot .I don’t understand their sense of humor.Not like Jet lee, Jacky Chen, Donny YenKatsu Shintaro n Wan Yu are just earning a easy money.The new one arm swordman starring David Chiang n Ti Lung is much betterVictor

I am now 61 years old, when I was a young man, my parents took me to a Chinese Theatre in L.A., Ca Chinatown to see the Chinese Version of One Armed Swordsman meets Zatoichi. The beginning is dramatically and tremendously different, the end part is the same except Zatoichi is more wounded and the One Armed Swordsman walks away seriously wounded.I have tried to get an original Chinese version and ended up with three Japanese version mainly because of misleading or vague advertising.In the Chinese version Wang intervenes and stands over the boy to protects him, the battle scenes between the Chinese and Japanese version are like day and night. In the Japanese version, Wang looks like an amature stuntman wannabe, it was terrible. In the Chinese version, protestecting the boy was masterful and tremendous. It is for this reason I wanted the Chinese version but there is some kind of business block preventing its disclosure and impossible to get!

The one- armed swordsman series is very good . Zatoishi series is also very good.This film however is the best of both the one-armed swordman films and Zatoishi series. There is a duel between Zatoishi and the one-armed swordsman in the end.They cant understand each other because of the language barrier.The duel is splendid but the result...If you like martial arts films, with a plot ( a good one ) go ahead and enjoy this film

this is also a good movie buy and enjoy or make a Christmas gift

All the negative reviews are not about the DVD, to talk about the negative reviews if you like your samurai movies with drama and little action go with the other movies in the series, but as far as action goes this is by far the best of the series. I personally don't like the "good" movies in this series their just too boring to me and the stories are too formulaic although some of the olders do have some very artful scenes that are beautiful one of the best cinematographers of the time was working on a lot of them.