The hundred episodes of the TV series followed 1970s TV dynamics: Zatoichi was (mostly) unchanging from one episode to the next, and the 45-minute episodes (allowing for 15 minutes of advertisement ...

For years, the Japanese cinema cranked out samurai adventures about a blind swordsman named Zatoichi. As a job description, “blind swordsman” does not sound reassuring, but it’s a gimmick that has ...

Blind Meng, played by Mo Tse, is a blind bounty hunter with a mysterious past who hunts wanted criminals during the twilight years of the Tang Dynasty, where corruption and lawlessness spread across ...