0:22 1. Opponent blind 2. Cover of night darkness 3. Open street, many ambush points including roof (High Ground) 4. Range weapons exist 5. Element of surprise 6. Trained for years in Ninjistu and art of stealth **Jumps in front of enemy**
Funny thing is he is actually blind, he just lied to set his opponent off balance. That extra seconds of unnecessary thoughts and doubt got him killed.
That doesn’t make sense. The dude was clearly not a skilled swordsman. Zatoichi was going to kill boss guy easy regardless and even the boss knew it. There has to be another reason. Maybe he just wanted to make him extra scared before he died or something.
He counts his steps, stores the count, then reverses the count to return to the origin. Subliminal angles of his domain are found in all his local adversaries, but only instantly relevant to his daily life. That is his primal advantage in addition to elevated senses and super charged nervous system.
I see a lot of people are confused by this. It's because of the translation and the nuance of the Japanese. He didn't say "You're not blind?", it was more like "You CAN see?", and the response was "Of course". He did not mean he wasn't blind, which he IS, but that even though he's blind, he can see.
it's a "true" technic of wakizashi-ryu it's just it's not normaly used with ushi-katana most of the time only with with wakizashi-katana or ninjato-katana ( every bladed weapon ( single edge) are katanas ( that more or less mean blade) even the halbert (naginata-katana) the blade WE call katana is mostly the ushi-katana and sometime the Odachi-katana ( 2 handed katana)!
There are two cultural-religious references here: 1. Zatoichi opening his eyes references Shiva's Eye of Truth (carried eastwards through Buddhism) 2. Him slashing the boss's back, with the snake tattoo - reference to Susanoo killing Yamata no Orochi.
I love how shallow the cuts are with the fake blood that can be mistaken for red flower pedals honestly if they doubled down on that it would be a great theme as a visual
He’s not blind. He was staring at the tattoo and knew there’a a bigger boss. He tripped over a stone to show that people using their eyes wasn’t as good as using his sharingan. His eyes color was a result of not using them for many years.
Ninja 1: Zatoichi is in the middle of the street with no cover! Lets kill him safely from distance! Ninja 2: And miss the opportunity to do our cool flip flop entrace? Are you crazy? Ninja 1: True!
The original Zatoichi film series was legendary but this was the best movie to conclude the series where he is much older, less humorous, less fun, not as charming as he was in his prime, more serious, more brutal and doesn't give a toss.
@@mannylugz5872 Iai-do is the art of drawing your sword, making a cut and then returning your sword to its scabbard. Ken-do is the art of swordfighting if iai-do doesn't work out LOL
well technicaly iai is not really a fighting style historicaly it's more a "one hit" style that was more used in dueling because once out the sword is seen as "dead"! so technicaly it's complementory to kenjutsu even in the movie the "character" of zatoishi is not only using iaijutsu but kenjutsu too!
Personally, and this is all just my speculation, Zatoichi is still blind as the old movies and tv series suggests, but to me, he probably has a rare eye disease since childbirth, having eyes which are very sensitive to light in the daytime, but very clear at night.
I watched the sequel itchi killer years ago at the time I had no idea who Zatoichi was but I remember the blind female swordsman having flash backs of being trained buy him and I heard there is a prequel and today I watched it wow what a great movie its so good the best samurai movie ever made
Don't get me wrong, but to act like blind for everybody to think you are and taught yourself to be blind because blind feel better is the most Japanese or Chinese gangsta thing possible. Respect.
For those who question it, he IS blind. What you don't see in this clip (because he says it later) is when he says "even with my eyes wide open, I can't see anything." Or something to that effect.
Wrong. He's not blind. Takeshi Kitano, who directed the film and played Zatoichi himself, said in his version Zatoichi is not blind. Watch the movie in its entirety.
@@eminboztepe "There was no way I was going to replace Mr Katsu. so I politely declined, but Madame Saito wouldn't take no for an answer." Kitano agreed, but he had one major condition: "My condition to do this movie and to direct and star was 'Okay, I'm going to keep the name of the movie and the character of Zatoichi and he will be a blind masseur, and a swordmaster. That's as much as I will be faithful to the original, and everything else would be entirely my own creation, and would that be okay?' and she said 'Yes, whatever you say.' " From his 2003 interview.
why would people say he's not blind when physically he really is.... his reply "not at all" means he's physically blind yes, but not on the sensation state. People's stimulus in smell, sense, touch and hearing etc significantly amplifies when they lose sight, that's why he said "Not at all". Eyes are not the only organs that send and receive signal and information to our brain, it may even be deceiving sometimes, or most times. Sense and experience however are the "better eyes" that let us see through the veiled reality
@@UBRambo56 nop, he just had is eyes closed all the time so he was able to see better at night, during the day he was blind because he never used his eyes with the light.
His Hardest Fight, Was The Ronin, With His Sick Sister. If The Ronin, Hadn't Smirked, At Zaotochi, He'd Still Be Alive, OR Both Would Be Dead. That Crazy Kid Doing Laps Of The House, Wtf. Good Film Though, Even Enjoyed, The Drums At The End. 😊
I don't think it was intended for ambiguity. I think it was more of a joke that he slips up as soon as he starts using his eyes instead of his other heightened senses.
0:22
1. Opponent blind
2. Cover of night darkness
3. Open street, many ambush points including roof (High Ground)
4. Range weapons exist
5. Element of surprise
6. Trained for years in Ninjistu and art of stealth
**Jumps in front of enemy**
Haha I never thought about that it is kinda dumb lol
6.Ninjas don't bleed, because they has no blood.
It was the honourable thing to do...🤔
@Nilay Arya whoosh...😑
Yeah, that was a good sequences of "oopsie" all around! xD
The best part is that he doesn't pretends that he is blind, he pretends that he can see.
Reverse psychology
Those look like cataracts, I think.
Nah he doesn’t have a reason to lie
The last ninja be like "yeah I'm going to die anyway better to have a epic entrance
Lol
Haha
Better go out with a bang.
Yeah, No.5 was nothing but a show-off...
Loooooooooooool
When you meet the final boss, but he doesn’t know you’ve already done all the side quests.
Only that this is not the final boss, but the sub-boss, ironically Zatoichi as punishment left the final boss blind.
Lol
not at all
it's like Lucien (Fable 2): this "final boss fight" is more an interactive cutscene than an actual fight
Why do the flips....you’re sneaking up on a blind guy....he won’t see how cool you are...
😂😂😂😂😂
@John Doe he’s blind tho
Never mind I take it back
dont they have ninja stars to throw at him?
Plot twist: he's not blind
did a cool ass back flip and landed to his death...lol
lmao hell yeah! Gotta make it look cool before I die!
Ninja forgot to wear something less aerodynamic lol
Funny thing is he is actually blind, he just lied to set his opponent off balance.
That extra seconds of unnecessary thoughts and doubt got him killed.
I always thought he was blind even though he opened his eys.
That doesn’t make sense. The dude was clearly not a skilled swordsman. Zatoichi was going to kill boss guy easy regardless and even the boss knew it. There has to be another reason. Maybe he just wanted to make him extra scared before he died or something.
Now I understand why samurais hated idle conversations :)
He counts his steps, stores the count, then reverses the count to return to the origin. Subliminal angles of his domain are found in all his local adversaries, but only instantly relevant to his daily life.
That is his primal advantage in addition to elevated senses and super charged nervous system.
No he's not blind. In the following scene we see his POV as he approaches the REAL boss.
For me this is the best version of Zatoichi
I see a lot of people are confused by this. It's because of the translation and the nuance of the Japanese. He didn't say "You're not blind?", it was more like "You CAN see?", and the response was "Of course". He did not mean he wasn't blind, which he IS, but that even though he's blind, he can see.
be afraid of old men in a job where many die young
For they either have outran death or faced it
Maybe both
Would rather see the movies than the clips
@@wasmi655 I did see this particular movie. Blow my mind at the end.
Ser Barristan Selmy?
This was my first Zatoichi, and he is my favorite, but there are many versions of Zatoichi out there. ♡ T.E.N.
This one is the best.
There is? Never heard of zaroichi but it looks good. Could someone point out to me where do I start? Thx in advance
Indubitably... Such a Classic!
Thta's the only Zatoichi movie I found
Check the 1989 movie of zatoichi and the ones before that the actor has been playing him since 1962/3
An amazing movie. Definitely worth watching if you’ve never seen it before
the old zatoichi was just a man with rough life.. this zatoichi is a demon..
Sight is just a distraction. I usually drive with my eyes closed.
Fujiwara Bunta, is that you?
That is drunk diving
2003年の作品なのに今のアクション映画を超える作品
that back flipping ninja @0:37 already dizzy dead by the time he got close to zatoichi. lol
たけしさんの、めくらの方が人の気持ちが分かるんだよ。ってセリフ、刺さりました。
The way Zatoichi use his SWORD ⚔️
Mind Blowing 💪🏻💪🏻
it's a "true" technic of wakizashi-ryu it's just it's not normaly used with ushi-katana most of the time only with with wakizashi-katana or ninjato-katana ( every bladed weapon ( single edge) are katanas ( that more or less mean blade) even the halbert (naginata-katana) the blade WE call katana is mostly the ushi-katana and sometime the Odachi-katana ( 2 handed katana)!
Imagine backflipping 20 times to your opponent, just to get insta-clapped
Imagine back flipping at all during in a fight with a blade, what a dumbass
With the amount of noise he was making, Ichi could hardly miss.
This is the best version of zatoichi
間違いなく、そう思います。
Zatoichi slays the Loudest Ninjas in the history of mankind.
Those Eyes! Just like the Taboo Desendents! He's of the Kure Clan!
Kure erioh!
There are two cultural-religious references here:
1. Zatoichi opening his eyes references Shiva's Eye of Truth (carried eastwards through Buddhism)
2. Him slashing the boss's back, with the snake tattoo - reference to Susanoo killing Yamata no Orochi.
stop doing drugs kid...this is not related to gods in any way
He is blind , lost the cornea's color in his eyes. The opponent thought he isn't.
Yukino Harashi thanks for the info
Yukino Harashi he kept his eyes closed for a few years
He's not blind. in the next scene where he confronts the REAL boss, there is a POV shot of him walking into the room.
@@ExposeDrift the very last line in the film tells you that he is blind
@@cokezero9254 Dude, the last line is a joke...
How did I never see these movies! So awesome
Blind people have eyes, you know.....
Just like deaf people have ears.
They just don't work...
ps: gotta love all that cgi blood...
so he can see the tattoos in is back with mind powers?
やっぱり北野武さんの座頭市は本家とは違うものの北野武さんの座頭市の良さがあるな
I love how shallow the cuts are with the fake blood that can be mistaken for red flower pedals honestly if they doubled down on that it would be a great theme as a visual
If it were real, body parts would be flying :)
Plot twist: He is really blind. He said that he can SEE...but it's because he has really good Observation Haki. 😁
Yeah that was a Great I’m blind but not really reveal!
Plot twist: he isn't blind. Takeshi Kitano said so himself.
勝新さんのは職人が手掛けた座頭市で武さんのは芸術家が手掛けた座頭市なんじゃないでしょうかね?
"You won't slay me easily!" Bro he just killed 5 ninjas without even breaking a sweat.
The perfect disguise & unexpectedly the barman's old geezer is a yakuza big boss .. I love this movie The Best Samurai man. 👍👍👍
Il miglior Samurai del mondo Zatoichi, che stermina la genetica del Drago.👍
He’s not blind. He was staring at the tattoo and knew there’a a bigger boss. He tripped over a stone to show that people using their eyes wasn’t as good as using his sharingan. His eyes color was a result of not using them for many years.
Nope.
@@jamesmaybrick2001 Lol. Thanks for this comment. Thought I was the only one.
"Even with my eyes open, I can't see a thing!"
1:40 YOU CAN KNOW THE MINDS OF PEOPLE AROUND YOU
Doing a series of precision flips in order to have a sword slice through you - that should be an event in the Olympic Games. 🥇
何気に聞いてたけど、座頭市さんの最後のシーンのセリフ、かなりの名言だと思いました。😑✨
Ninja 1: Zatoichi is in the middle of the street with no cover! Lets kill him safely from distance!
Ninja 2: And miss the opportunity to do our cool flip flop entrace? Are you crazy?
Ninja 1: True!
俺も人の気持ちを遠ざけるために無口なフリをして生きてる
The original Zatoichi film series was legendary but this was the best movie to conclude the series where he is much older, less humorous, less fun, not as charming as he was in his prime, more serious, more brutal and doesn't give a toss.
The “Iai (居合)”is the fastest forms in japanese fighting style .
Zatoichi “Ichi” is The iai master .
風間 碧 aoi_kazama l
Is that the back-handed katana style?
@@mannylugz5872 Iai-do is the art of drawing your sword, making a cut and then returning your sword to its scabbard. Ken-do is the art of swordfighting if iai-do doesn't work out LOL
well technicaly iai is not really a fighting style historicaly it's more a "one hit" style that was more used in dueling because once out the sword is seen as "dead"! so technicaly it's complementory to kenjutsu even in the movie the "character" of zatoishi is not only using iaijutsu but kenjutsu too!
Mi idolo Takeshi Kitanö Gracias por su servicio
Personally, and this is all just my speculation, Zatoichi is still blind as the old movies and tv series suggests, but to me, he probably has a rare eye disease since childbirth, having eyes which are very sensitive to light in the daytime, but very clear at night.
I watched the sequel itchi killer years ago at the time I had no idea who Zatoichi was but I remember the blind female swordsman having flash backs of being trained buy him and I heard there is a prequel and today I watched it wow what a great movie its so good the best samurai movie ever made
Don't get me wrong, but to act like blind for everybody to think you are and taught yourself to be blind because blind feel better is the most Japanese or Chinese gangsta thing possible. Respect.
Haven’t seen it in awhile but good movie
目が開くところめちゃめちゃカッコいい
Takeshi Kitano said so himself that his version of Zatoichi isn't blind because he likes to break traditions in his films.
Thank you!!!!
Everybody is a ninja until a blind man with a big knife appears.
Doing Multiple back hand springs into the fight is never a good idea 😂 learned this after a few fights in school, tires you out quick!
Yeah and it's totally pointless, it's slower than running and you're doing a handstand with your back to your opponent half the time.
For those who question it, he IS blind. What you don't see in this clip (because he says it later) is when he says "even with my eyes wide open, I can't see anything." Or something to that effect.
Wrong. He's not blind. Takeshi Kitano, who directed the film and played Zatoichi himself, said in his version Zatoichi is not blind. Watch the movie in its entirety.
@@eminboztepe "There was no way I was going to replace Mr Katsu. so I politely declined, but Madame Saito wouldn't take no for an answer." Kitano agreed, but he had one major condition: "My condition to do this movie and to direct and star was 'Okay, I'm going to keep the name of the movie and the character of Zatoichi and he will be a blind masseur, and a swordmaster. That's as much as I will be faithful to the original, and everything else would be entirely my own creation, and would that be okay?' and she said 'Yes, whatever you say.' " From his 2003 interview.
you fool he he can see...
@@divacroft1034 See my quote from his interview in 2003.
@@wty1313 your scam failed now move on
0:20
毎回思うけど、どんなカラクリなのかめっちゃ気になる！
why would people say he's not blind when physically he really is.... his reply "not at all" means he's physically blind yes, but not on the sensation state. People's stimulus in smell, sense, touch and hearing etc significantly amplifies when they lose sight, that's why he said "Not at all". Eyes are not the only organs that send and receive signal and information to our brain, it may even be deceiving sometimes, or most times. Sense and experience however are the "better eyes" that let us see through the veiled reality
He put the boss in a state of suspense. He is really blind
To be fair it's rather ambiguous if he really is blind or not, so it can honestly go either way
for people that say OMG spoiler how about not watching the scenes then like wtf
watch the damn movie then
I appreciate this version, but the old one is way more fun.
Ninjas rule the night. 🌙
Zatoichi rules the ninjas
Zatoichi is always in night. Ninja is just visiting.
Where did those first 2 come from?? There are no holes in the ground at 0:50
01:41: His eyes look like demonic eyes.
Briseur De Lance the eyes of vengeance.
@@UBRambo56 nop, he just had is eyes closed all the time so he was able to see better at night, during the day he was blind because he never used his eyes with the light.
The Kure Clan!
he became sort of bloodlusted murdering loner
@@theripperthetearror2130 I don't get it
you gotta be careful with these actions
He became blind from welding his sword without a helmet.
I thought it was from when in a war with the southern clans, he got struck in his knee with an arrow, but this would make sense too I guess
Enjoy
when you spend more time flipping than fighting
The ending totally I didn’t think the old drunk was the one behind everything
Reminds me of that one mob boss who neverr wore new clothes. When they arrested him he claimed he was a crazy homeless man.
1:33 そうだよ？の言い方w
俺もそこ好きｗ
人の気持ちが分かるじゃなくて見えるって言った方がなんか素敵だと思う〇
His Hardest Fight, Was The Ronin, With His Sick Sister.
If The Ronin, Hadn't Smirked, At Zaotochi, He'd Still Be Alive, OR Both Would Be Dead.
That Crazy Kid Doing Laps Of The House, Wtf.
Good Film Though, Even Enjoyed, The Drums At The End.
😊
Can't mess with old man speed
Takeshi Kitano he is real master
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Admiral fujitora !
When he opens his eyes they are a very light blue in this version he likely has some sight . His eyes aren’t milked over and reflected light .
That twist though
I love ninjas and samurai
1:31 lmao
the CGI is bad truly but the story i loved it
Just as good as the old b&w version.
You are the sunshine of my life 💛
now that's a strong admiral right there
Shame he didnt use his meteors
Gözü görmeyenin gönlü utansın, gönlü görmeyenin gözü utansın...
Masterpiece
隠れていても、獣は臭いで分かりまする。烏丸少将の名言のリスペクトかな？
He is secretly a earth bender, he feels the earth around him. If you get it, you just get it.
like daredevil
Toph was one bad as little girl.
Those backflips didn't help 😅
1:00 the stench.
0:21 where did these come out of? lol
Magic
Spider holes i believ they are called.
Waiting in the hole to kill the object
That's why they're ninjas.
despite being blind, now i see everything.
Guy: Why do you act blind?
PWDs get discounts.
Who woulda thought Sensei from Beverly Hills Ninja is fucking THIS badass
those are some loud ninjas lol
0:51 the five + the Boss = a six
日本の映画も載ってるんですね
o-o He is blind. He lost the color in his eyes...
...only he isn't really the final boss.
0:52 I thought that was Jokowi
Also there is a weird flash scene before ichi slashing the backflip guy
beda jauh bgt. jg, gk ada yg tau pak pres di video ginian
Damn he is fast!
1:34 it's like he has the eyes of a demon 😨
Your right. The whole blind thing isn't a huge part of the story at all
?
1:19 A blind man like you.
1:39 That is all !
He actually trips when he's walking away so it's left kinda sketchy as to wether he was telling the truth about the blind thing.
I don't think it was intended for ambiguity. I think it was more of a joke that he slips up as soon as he starts using his eyes instead of his other heightened senses.
Or he instantly went back at is as now nobody knows he ISN'T really blind.