Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Zatoichi: Blind Swordsman 5 - On The Road (1963) Rating: Starring: Shiho Fujimura, Reiko Fujiwara, Shintaro Katsu, Matasaburo Niwa, Ryuzo Shimada, Yoshio Yoshida Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda Category: Action / Adventure, Avant Garde, Foreign, Classics, Classics Studio: Home Vision Subtitles: English Length: 87 mins     With 26 film sequels and upwards of 100 TV episodes, Shintaro Katsu is the legendary Zatoichi! He's a low ranking blind masseur who lives by the Yakuza code and answers his foes with a deadly cane sword. By far, one of Japanese cinema's most time honored screen personas, Zatoichi is, to this day, the ultimate anti-hero and champion of the common man. Zatoichi is on the run from two deadly gangs in the fifth installment of the Blind Swordsman series. While traveling to a village where the local gang leader wants to hire him as a bodyguard, Ichi and his companion are attacked by a rival gang. After negotiating sage passage for himself, the blind masseur encounters a servant girl trying to escape after being raped by a feudal lord. Agreeing to help the girl get back to her family, Zatoichi realizes he'll have to take on both gangs to make it through.