Mekurano Oichi midaregasa (1969)

Mekurano Oichi midaregasa: Directed by Hirokazu Ichimura. With Yôko Matsuyama, Gorô Ibuki, Tamayo Mitsukawa, Mayumi Arai. Oichi, the blind swordswoman, receives a scroll with a secret message from a dying courier, that must be handed to Murobuse, a high officer of the Shogunate. Her path is full of obstacles that delay her, or put her life in danger, from hungry orphans to a dagger thrower in a carnival, from robbers to a rival samurai… Will the secret of how to produce a new kind of explosive fall in the wrong hands?

“The lady kills an awful lot of people. The movie concentrates on the killing much more than Oichiu0026#39;s first venture which also addressed her feelings for the mother who had abandoned her.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut, as a samurai sword flick, it wasnu0026#39;t too bad. There is a very adolescent girl (I think eighty percent legs) and a boy who looks like he walked off of the set of Dragonballz.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s not much that I can say about this except that it is one big fight pretty much from beginning to end…”