here's a nutshell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi there's only one of the movies don't have the family wouldn't release it same actor did a series Hanzo that was absolutely terrific The girl with the dragon tattoo foreign version of all 3 movies really good... most of my foreign films on DVD use a special DVD player wore the first one out got another one and had to get an adapter plug for it to use it here