It's the little things, to make life great. Small pleasures, like a steaming pie (pizza or rhubarb), a comic book good, good beer, klowns killer, zatoichi spaghetti western and even a giant robot movie. But nothing - and we mean anything - than watching donkey blind samurai stone home theater more comfortable. There are really only a blind warrior in charge: the legendary Zatoichi.

A first appearance on the basis of a short story by writer Jane 1948 Shimozawa place in the 1840s is a real historical event in Japan. (To put this platform California gold rush was conducted in the United States has just invented the telegraph and Morse.) Japan is in the middle of the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate in principle. zatoichi tv seriesShimozawa tells the story of two gang boss, one of which has convened a war supported by a masseur who travel between the uncanny ability. The key role in this passage is: "The blind although he, Zatoichi is a master swordsman with lightning ball swordsman :. He just lies on his opponents wilt in fear"

Shimozawa story is very popular, Daiei Studios (now Kadokawa Pictures) adapt quickly to seize the opportunity to put it into jidai- Geki movie, have a contract of his young players, Shintaro Katsu. Studio tried to find the appropriate vehicle for the actor, but with Zatoichi story in 1962, they realized that success with huge economic victory played a classic anti-hero. zatoichi tv series Because television is relatively late in Japan, the local studio theater select serial story through new media first competition. As a result, winning Zatoichi starred in no less than 26 films from 1962 and 1989 - a series, which is popular in Japan, elsewhere in James Bond movies. In the film not only provides impressive Ichi roses Zhang (fencing) act and wide screen capture dynamic, but also surprising degree of humor and humanity. Although Ichi is extraordinary, capable deadly gang, he only uses these people as their enemies usually when the poor and oppressed of service, forcing then - surely the key for all the success of the franchise. When the film is no longer in 1970 outcompete smaller screens, such as Ichi performance wins in about 100 TV zatoichi sets as well