Zatoichi Coming to DVD

Home Vision Entertainment, a company affiliated with Criterion home video that specializes in distributing “award-winning classics of world cinema, to cutting-edge works from today’s independent filmmakers to art and cultural documentaries from around the globe,” has announced that it will release the first two Zatoichi samurai films from 1962 on DVD May 1st at a retail price of $19.95 each. The second film is especially noteworthy because it pits actor Shintaro Katsu against his real-life brother Tomisaburo Wakayama, who 10 years later earned fame by playing Ogami Itto in Toho’s famous Lone Wolf & Cub movies.

Source: Anime News Service