Netflix: Zatoichi: Festival of Fire
Zatoichi is a blind Japanese swordsman. Despite being blind, he’s quite dangerous, but has a whimsical air about him most of the time.
He generally does goofy things, hits on attractive ladies, and is overall comical … but for some reason people try to kill him, and end up in piles of corpses on the floor instead.
“A real man is one who lives his life under the sun, with nothing to hide.” A common theme among this sort of movie, but really exemplified by Zatoichi’s lifestyle.
I loved this movie. From the somewhat cheesy but still awesome fight scenes to the awesome but horribly jumpy plot, it pretty much fits the traditional “Japanese Samurai Movie” bill to a T.