This samurai epic is the only film written, directed and starring the legendary Shintaro Katsu! One of Quentin Tarantino's recommended martial-arts films! Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi is a blood-stained, blind assassin that shows the frailties of a man trying to live up to the way of the samurai.

No good deed goes unpunished for Zatoichi (Katsu Shintaro), the blind masseur and master swordsman. After delivering the baby of a dying women and fullfilling her last wish to take her infant to the town of Shiobara, he finds the father missing and must leave the child with his aunt, Oya-e. Immediatly taking a liking to the young woman, he resolves to help her when her inn is turned into a brothel by Tetsugoro, the local yakuza boss.

In a town where women are bought and sold, Zatoichi stumbles upon a secret organization headed by Yamikubo, the Dark Imperial Lord. The "Boss of Bosses," blind like Zatoichi, takes an interest in the masseur, guiding him on the path of destiny and the duty of the sightless. However, a chance encounter with two beautiful women might be the end of Zatoichi, as both a jealous husband and the town Yakuza wants his head!

This boxset contains the first four Zatoichi movies: The Tale of Zatoichi, The Tale of Zatoichi Continues, New Tale of Zatoichi, and The Fugitive.

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman stars Japanese screen legend Beat Takeshi in an action-packed, award-winning film that has been compared to Kill Bill Volume One. Sonatine also stars Beat Takeshi in a fast and furious gangland thriller with an edgy Pulp Fiction attitude. Both of these films include bonus DVD features, including an introduction to Sonatine by Quentin Tarantino.

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays them and sets them free. But it's really all just a plot to enlist Ichi's aid in eliminating the competition...

When a small boy is about to be executed, Wang Kong, a one-armed swordsman from China, steps in to save him. Now with a price on his head, Wang Kong must become an outlaw to survive. When Zatoichi and Wang Kong meet, their different languages act as a barrier between them. The two swordsmen are destined to meet in battle, where only one will walk away.

A blind masseur by trade, Zatoichi has learned to wield his blade by ear with incredible accuracy! A man without a past or future, he wanders the countryside, trying to live in peace, but dispensing justice with his deadly sword when forced by circumstance.

After a fatal encounter wth an elderly women on a decrepit rope bridge, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter, to make restitution for his role in her death. He finds that the daughter, Nishikigi, is the most popular prostitute in the local brothel. Vowing to save Nishikigi from this life of sin, he sets out to earn the money to redeem her.

The Flip of a coin leads the blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi to his hometown, a place he has not visited in over two decades. But things never stay quiet for the masseur for very long. An old face from Ichi's childhood, Shinbei, has hatched a nefarious plot to rob the town of thier valuable community quarry. The masseur is caught in the unenviable position of mediating the conflict between his former pal and the home of his youth, with neither side willing to budge.

In 1978, Shinichi fell in love with a TV super hero named Zebraman that was cancelled shortly after airing. The show was set in 2010, so this year he sews himself a makeshift Zebraman costume and slinks around the city at night. His harmless escapism becomes reality when he runs into a half-crab, half-man enemy of the same TV show and begins to realize the stories of Zebraman and his strange alien enemies were actually prophecies.