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Featuring one of the best screenplays we have seen in an Atg movie, by Takehiro Nakajima (some allege it was inspired by his own life), who won a number of awards in 1976 for his effort, “Preparation for the Festival” is another great sample of the company's catalog, that takes a rather realistic, as much as comedic look at the life in rural Japan during the 50s, also channeling intense erotic elements. The film was included in the top 200 of Kinema Junpo critics, in number 157.

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The story revolves around Takeo, a young man in his 20s, who is working as a clerk in the small town he has been living in all his life. However, Takeo's mind is definitely elsewhere as his thoughts are monopolized by his will to leave for Tokyo, and finally losing his virginity, with the latter...

After he had directed the third and fourth installment of the terribly successful Zatoichi-series, Tokuzo Tanaka would return only three years later to helm the overall thirteenth entry into the story of the blind masseur walking the roads and highways of Japan. In general, 1966 was quite an interesting year since both “Zatoichi’s Vengeance” and “Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage” turned out to be not only very entertaining, but also worthwhile additions to the franchise, showing a few new layers of the character played again by Shintaro Katsu. Albeit its generic title, “Zatoichi’s Revenge” is a tale dealing with the repercussions of the life Zatoichi has chosen, for himself and those around him as well as whether he can actually think of a life without the need of his trusted cane sword.

However, the beginning of the movie looks quite familiar as Zatoichi (Katsu), after a battle...