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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.

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Release : 1969
Rating : 6.9
Studio : Shochiku Kyoto, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Director of Photography, 
Cast : Yōko Matsuyama Chizuko Arai Jun Tatara Shinichi Yanagisawa Misako Tominaga
Genre : Adventure Drama Action

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BlazeLime
2018/08/30

Strong and Moving!

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Cortechba
2018/08/30

Overrated

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AnhartLinkin
2018/08/30

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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Ariella Broughton
2018/08/30

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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Lee Eisenberg
2013/04/07

First, I should admit that I haven't seen many movies in this genre. And I understand that the most famous series focusing on Japanese sword fighters is the Zatoichi series. I certainly haven't seen that one but hope to. In the meantime I just saw the first entry in the Crimson Bat series, called "Mekura no oichi monogatari: Makkana nagaradori" ("Crimson Bat: The Blind Swordsman" in English). It's definitely the sort of movie that would've inspired Quentin Tarantino, as the blind, abandoned character Oichi (Yoko Matsuyama) goes around dispensing justice. As it was, the copy that I saw was spoken in Japanese, dubbed in English, subtitled in Dutch! It's not the best movie but pretty fun, and that's what counts with these movies.

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sketchboy123
2012/08/26

The other critics are off base comparing Crimson Bat to Zatoichi. They are different films with different tones, delivering different messages. Zatoichi is highly dramatic and incorporates zen Bushido. Judged on it's own merits, Crimson Bat is a less preachy action flick with a female lead who kicks butt. It has a seventies feel due to its music, sound effects, and color schemes. I enjoy the use of dramatic lighting of black and white noir film applied to color. You get a sword fight in every town and on every road as Oichi rights injustice and avoids bounty hunters. More akin to television westerns, it has better production value than Bruce Lee films and is simply entertaining.

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masercot
2003/01/11

Okay, it you compete with the well-paced and well-directed Zatoichi movies, you will be compared to them. Crimson Bat doesn't hold a candle to Zatoichi; however, the movie that I just saw (the first of the Crimson Bat series) was not bad. Yoko Matsuyama's character is mostly set on revenge and that puts it into the class of mundane samurai movies. Zatoichi had a zen pace to it...a series of things that happened.Oichi, the blind swordswoman, has a face as expressionless as a china doll. One could do a lot with such a face, as in Kurasawa's Throne of Blood. Sadly, it ended up as an average sword-fighting movie, well worth watching, but not really worth a repeat viewing...

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freakus
1999/08/24

The "Crimson Bat" series was Shochiku's attempt to compete with Daie's popular "Zatoichi" film's. Zatoichi, the blind swordsman is even directly parodied in this entry, (a blind massuer stumbles down the street and the bad guys kick him in the butt). Oichi is also blind but her motivation revolves a bit more around revenge. The production values and that fact that the version I saw was dubbed gave this film a real "Shaw Brothers" feel. It was kind of like watching a japanese "Dirty Ho" or "Five Venoms". Not fabulous, but entertaining.

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