I was a little wary of the Zatoichi Television series, but really I shouldn’t have been worried. This is essentially 45 minute Zatoichi films with a little less blood, and less women interested in Zatoichi, but other than that this is just more Zatoichi. If you are a fan you will love this show, though at 100 episodes this is going to be an expensive series to own especially since the first disc has 5 episodes and each subsequent only has 4.

More Zatoichi action, well worth seeing. With all the violence but no blood (except in the first episode). Katsu Shin is really the man, and I still don’t know how he does that with his eyes. He is bad ass fighter and his fighting style is amazing.