Free Showing! The Tale of Zatoichi
Sat, Feb 15
|Sonoma Clean Power
A classic Japanese film shown at the Sonoma Clean Power building in Santa Rosa


Time & Location
Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Sonoma Clean Power, 741 4th St, Santa Rosa, CA 95404, USA
About the event
This is a free film showing of a classic Japanese movie with English subtitles, sponsored by the Sonoma Matsuri and Sonoma Clean Power. Shown at the Sonoma Clean Power building, downtown Santa Rosa.
The Tale of Zatoichi (Japanese: 座頭市物語, Hepburn: Zatōichi Monogatari) is a 1962 Japanese chanbara film directed by Kenji Misumi and based on the 1948 essay of the same name by Kan Shimozawa. It is the first installment in a long-running jidaigekifilm series starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman Zatoichi.[1][2]
Plot
The blind masseur Zatoichi is hired as muscle for the yakuza Sukegoro (Eijiro Yanagi) as he thinks that war is inevitable with his rival Shigezo (Ryuzo Shimada). Zatoichi has a distinguished reputation as a swordsman and Sukegoro thinks that purchasing his services is money well spent. Shigezo responds by hiring a ronin of similar repute, Miki Hirate (Shigeru Amachi).
Ichi presents himself as a meek, humble man and is commonly underestimated and looked upon suspiciously. His being a masseur, which was a position of low regard…