Zitat von Midnight Eye review
Though references to Shintaro Katsu's (der ursprüngliche Zatoichi-Darsteller) pop-cultural icon have manifested themselves before in his work, lampooned in both his TV comedy in the 80s and a sequence in the hare-brained Getting Any?, Kitano has mentioned that he was no particular fan of the original series of films. The impetus for the remake came instead from Chieko Saito, the matriarchal 70+ year-old former owner of a string of strip theatres across Tokyo, who put up approximately 15% of the film's budget. It was at her insistence that Kitano agreed to take on the project as a homage to the original Zatoichi actor, a former personal friend of hers.
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