Best movies of Shintarô Katsu

Actors : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Masayo Banri, Shintarô Katsu, Yaeko Mizutani, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kazuo Mori,

The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, learns of a powerful political figure's secret and is quickly tailed by a group of killers.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jun'ichirô Narita,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile a long lost love of Zatoichi's returns to his life.

Actors : Yukiji Asaoka, Shintarô Katsu, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques.

Actors : Saburô Date, Nobuo Kaneko, Shintarô Katsu, Yoshi Katô,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

When Zatoichi witnesses the murder of a young mother he promises to deliver the baby to the father. Along the way he gains the help of a reluctant criminal.

Actors : Ryûtarô Gan, Kanako Higuchi, Takanori Jinnai, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Shintarô Katsu,

Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into ...

Actors : Ryûzô Shimada, Reiko Fujiwara, Shiho Fujimura, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.

Actors : Fujio Suga, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Shintarô Katsu, Seizaburô Kawazu,
Directors : Tokuzô Tanaka,

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

Actors : Keizô Kanie, Kazuko Inano, Shintarô Katsu, Keiko Aikawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

During the currency devaluation by the Edo treasury, officer Hanzo deals with a temple priestess who sells her pupils as prostitutes, and a notorious thief who plans to rob the mint.

Actors : Mikiko Tsubouchi, Shintarô Katsu, Machiko Hasegawa, Shôgo Shimada,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief. To clear his name he must find and defeat the real villain.

Actors : Eiko Taki, Miwa Takada, Kichijirô Ueda, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Actors : Takeshi Katô, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Shintarô Katsu, Norihei Miki,
Directors : Akira Inoue,

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

Actors : Yukiji Asaoka, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jûshirô Konoe,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

After an artist is threatened by the yakuza into creating valuable but highly illegal pornography, the law aims to execute him. Zatoichi, having been honor bound to protect the man and his family, must now run against the law.

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Shintarô Katsu, Pîtâ, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Yu Wang,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Ryûtarô Gomi, Tatsuo Endô, Takashi Etajima,
Directors : Kazuo Ikehiro,

After being wounded in a fight, Zatoichi is nursed to health by a young woman and her father. Now indebted to the family, he works to protect their ferry business from local thugs.

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Shintarô Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Kei Satô,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.

Actors : Makoto Fujita, Shiho Fujimura, Shintarô Katsu, Yoshihiko Aoyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.