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Re: The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi

didn't straight-to-video fave Rutger Hauer star in a film about a blind
swordsman once?

dd

-----Original Message-----
From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: 28 July 2004 16:43
To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi


In Hollywood, the blind are represented in film either as pitiful
victims, such as in "Wait Until Dark," or as comic figures like Mr.
Muckle, who tears apart W. C. Fields's shop in "It's a Gift." Leave it
to the Japanese to come up with somebody like Zatoichi, the blind master
swordsman who was played by the beloved Shintaro Katsu in 26 films
between 1962 and 1989, as well as 100 television episodes based on the
character.
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