The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues , Zoku Zatichi Monogatari? is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Mori and starring Shintaro Katsu as Zatichi the blind swordsman, a character created by Kan Shimozawa. The Tale of Zatoichi Continues is the second entry in the popular, longrunning Zatoichi series.

Three prostitutes in the restaurant discuss how many men are now looking for Zatichi, and how they will have no business. One of them, Setsu, grows very fond of Zatichi very quickly, asking him to spend the night with her, and saying that her own father was blind and yet married three women. While Zatichi sits in a back room the onearmed swordsman, Yoshiro, and his companion enter the same restaurant. The companion remarks how Setsu looks exactly like Chiyo, a woman Yoshiro once loved. Yoshiro demands that Setsu spend the night with him. Setsu refuses, and Zatichi reenters the room. Yoshiro tells a short story of how Chiyo left him after he became a cripple. Zatichi says that he too loved a woman named Chiyo but that she, upon discovering he was blind, left him for the man she hated most in the world. In his rage, Zatichi says, he sought out this man and attacked him. Zatichi leaves with Setsu. In the morning, she remarks that it is as if they were married. Learning that he is to be killed, she urges Zatichi to leave, but he awaits the attackers.Sukegoro, the yakuza boss with whom Yoshiro has been staying, returns from his travels, having learned that Yoshiro is a wanted criminal, only posing as a samurai. He confronts Yoshiro and tells him it is time for him to leave. Yoshiro, on his way out of town, hears that Zatichi is planning on going to the temple to pay respects. He decides to go there too, but he is followed and the constabulary are alerted. Otane, who is to be married, hears of Zatichis return, and races to the temple, too. On his own way to the temple, Zatichi stops by the stream where he once fished with Hirate in the previous film, and laments the loss of the only man he could call friend. He also regrets his failure to understand Otanes desire to marry him also in the previous film, and recalls his love for Chiyo, who was stolen from him by his brother Yoshiro. ........

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