Ah, the samurai film.
Few things are as much fun as watching guys in drab wardrobe try to kill each other with swords.
Let's face it, in the United States people associate samurai films with the arty films of Kurosawa. As wonderful as those are, there are other terrific samurai films out there. The Blind Swordsman and the Fugitives was released in 1968 and is a good example of what makes Zatoichi films so much fun. The Blind Swordsman and the Fugitives has a complicated plot. After a while, you begin to wonder if it was based on a story by Victor Hugo.