Line #8 YMMV/Zatoichi


1	* CompleteMonster:
2	** ''Zatoichi's Revenge'': [[CorruptPolitician Intendant Isoda]] and his partner-in-crime Boss Tatsugoro participate in a venture where they give out loans to people in need of them, but when the men inevitably cannot pay due to the unfair rates, the duo abduct their wives or daughters and force them into prostitution. In some cases, they even have those indebted to them murdered so they can force the girls into the brothels anyways as that was their true aim all along. If the girls show any disobedience, Isoda and Tatsugoro have them viciously beaten and locked up until they can no longer resist. To top it off, neither is above sexually assaulting the women themselves if they want her.
3	** ''Zatoichi and the Outlaw'': Boss Asagoro works with [[CorruptPolitician Kyushiro Suga]]. Asagoro wins Ichi's favor by posing as an honorable Yakuza boss so Ichi will wipe out his rival, promising to champion the people who suffer under the corrupt Suga. Instead, Asagoro betrays Ichi's trust and he and Suga viciously oppress the peasants worse than before. Asagoro forces a woman named Oshino to be Suga's concubine, and when she refuses to sleep with him, Suga tortures her and sends her to Asagoro's brothel where Asagoro will have clients forced on her. [[DrivenToSuicide Oshino opts to kill herself first]] and when her beloved tries to avenge her, Asagoro simply has his throat cut without a hint of humanity. Suga and Asagoro deal with rivals on trumped up charges of treason while working to torture and brutalize anyone who might dare rebel. When Ichi goes to see Asagoro, Asagoro feigns friendship still...only to try to have Ichi shot as he leaves his home, knowing how deadly Ichi's sword skills are. Even at the end, Asagoro displays no loyalty to his own men and uses one as a HumanShield when Ichi comes for him.
4	** ''Zatoichi in Desperation'': Boss Mangoro Kagiya runs his territory with an iron fist. Mangoro has the populace cowed and his Yakuza kill as they will, even beating the village idiot to death for no real reason. He dispossesses the legitimate fishermen of their property and has his [[TheDragon bodyguard put them to the sword]]. When a little boy throws a pebble at him in a tiny display of defiance, Mangoro seizes him and [[WouldHurtAChild beats his skull in with the sheath of his sword]]. Working off indebted prostitution as well, Mangoro has a prostitute Ichi knows used as a hostage to get him to surrender by threatening to kill her, and then tortures Ichi by impaling his hands. When Ichi manages to fight back and kills most of Mangoro's men, Mangoro still tries to order his men to kill Ichi by [[BadBoss threatening their lives if they refuse]] and when this fails, rushes from house to house, threatening each peasant to give him shelter from Ichi's wrath.
5	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Numerous moments in the Creator/TakeshiKitano [[Film/Zatoichi2003 film]]. Appropriate, since Kitano, the star and director, is a comedian.
6	* IAmNotShazam: The protagonist's name is ''Ichi'', Zato refers to a historical guild for blind men. Ichi should be called ''Zato-no-Ichi'', but this is shortened to ''Zatoichi''.

Context YMMV / Zatoichi