dood has anyone seen this? It is uber gangster and i encourage anyone who hasn't to watch it. Very good movie.

the new one with Beat Takeshi? I didn't think it was that great.

im such a sleeper i didnt know that there was a new and old one...i just seen some fools nose hit the wall and slide down and i was like OI!

Damn I imagine the older one is much better...

there is a whole series of older films. zatoichi is sort of like a samurai super hero.

check it out:

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=zatoichi

Not to mention Lone Wolf !!!! Best gore samuari series ever.

And The guy that plays the original Zatoichi is the guy that plays Lone Wolfs real life brother

Or cousin or something but related non the less

There's like 45 Zatoichi films, a whole series of them.

Check out Azumi for a cool flick...

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384819/

radness...i have some of the lone wolf comic books, them smaller ones.
Imma deff check some of them movies out though.

I actually prefer Shogun Assassin, the bastardized American version of 2 of the lone wolf movies. normally I'm an original is better type guy, but I think the edits give it an entirely different feel. and the music is fantastic!

i love it all. zatoichi plays on ifc (independent film channel) on saturday mornings, check it out, along with a ton of great samurai movies.

i love shogun assasin. i haven't seen all of the lone wolf movies, but i have a couple of the dvds.