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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
2003
· Movie
· 116 min
B
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1044
- IMDb #1323
- Rotten Tomatoes #850
- Metacritic #1138
- Letterboxd #1546
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1361
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #782
- Metacritic Critics #1032
- Metacritic Audience #1459
- Kinopoisk #915
- AlloCiné #1483
- Trakt #1651
Every rating
74–88
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Letterboxd on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 88.
See the most agreed on films →Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Details
- Director
- Takeshi Kitano
- Writer
- Takeshi Kitano
- Based on
- a work by Kan Shimozawa
- Released
- 6 September 2003
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $34.2M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 16th European Film Awards 2003 | Best Non-European Film | Takeshi Kitano | Nominee |
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award 2003 | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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2 awards — The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
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Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award | Winner |
16th European Film Awards
1 nomination
| Best Non-European Film | Takeshi Kitano | Nominee |