Zatoichi – Limited Edition Steelbook Blu Ray – Takeshi Kitano , Tadanobu Asano

Takeshi ‘Beat’ Kitano, best known for his 1997 film ‘Hana-Bi’, revives the Japanese fictional action anti-hero Zatoichi in this violent and bloody swashbuckling samurai adventure. Zatoichi (played by Takeshi himself) may be blind but he is also an incredibly gifted and precise swordsman. When the ruthless Ginzo gang, with the help of the legendary Hattori, mercilessly take over a remote mountain town, Zatoichi and his friend Shinkichi must do everything in their considerable powers to stop them.

Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook – Limited to 4000 copies.

This thrilling tale of swordplay and adventure from cult filmmaker Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi) is packed with brillitantly choreographed action scenes and riotous humour, “Beat” Takeshi plays the blind wanderer Zatoichi, whose humble facade masks his prodigious skills as a master swordsman, gifted with a lighning gast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. When he arrives in a remote town whose people are being terroised by the ruthless Ginzo gang and their mighty samurai ronin Hattori (Tadanobu Asano), Zatoichi’s path is set for many violent confrontations.