Thursday, October 10, 2019

Yoko Matsuyama

A nice shot of actress Yoko Matsuyama. She did four "blind swordswoman" films, or the Crimson Bat films. Her name in the films was Oichi, a takeoff on Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. While the character is Japanese, the Chinese also used a blind swordswoman in some of their films.


The films received play in Hawaii and at least in California, but only with English subtitles. An English language trailer exists for one of the films:

 

Apparently these were dubbed in English, and a Blu-Ray of the first film, with supposedly English dubbing, was released in Germany in 2016, but whether the film or films played with English dubbing anywhere is unknown right now.

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