Zatoichi - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Zatoichi"
座頭市 (2003)
Timing: 1:56 (116 min)
Zatoichi - TMDB rating
7.243/10
945
Zatoichi - Kinopoisk rating
7.666/10
27923
Zatoichi - IMDB rating
7.4/10
53000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Tsunehisa Saitô
Producer

Casting

Takefumi Yoshikawa
Casting

Editor

Yoshinori Ota
Editor

Costume Design

Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design

Production Design

Norihiro Isoda
Production Design

Original Music Composer

Photo Keiichi Suzuki #112562
Keiichi Suzuki
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Katsumi Yanagijima
Director of Photography

Screenplay

Novel

Photo Kan Shimozawa #116058
Kan Shimozawa
Novel

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film is based on a series of novels by Kan Shimozawa about a blind masseur, a master of kenjutsu and iaido named Zatoichi.
  • The blood in the film looks unnaturally bright. The screenwriter, director, and lead actor Takeshi Kitano deliberately made it that way, so that the blood, according to him, would look like 'flowers blooming on the screen'.
  • Daigoro Tatibana, who played the role of the geisha O-Sei, is an actor of the traditional Japanese theatrical onnagata, in which men play female roles.
  • The Japanese tap dance ensemble The Stripes performs the dance number at the end of the film along with the actors.
  • The blood in the film appears unnaturally bright. The screenwriter, director, and lead actor Takeshi Kitano deliberately made it so, in order for the blood, according to him, to look like "flowers blooming on the screen."
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