crimson bat
the blind oichi series, released in the west under the crimson bat monicker, ran for another three films until matsuyama hung up her blade to raise a family, the other films in the series being trapped! the crimson bat (1969); watch out, crimson bat! (' 69) and crimson bat: wanted dead or alive (' 70) .
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crimson bat - the blind swordswoman box set (mekuro no oichi monogatari) 1969 - color - 360 min .
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i think if you’re hoping to get the crimson bat, you’re wasting your gems if you’re getting event keys. use them on gem keys instead .
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with the success of the zatoichi movies it was natural that someone would try to feed off the series success. in 1969 shochiku studios introduced the crimson bat series which ran for four movies .
i’m crossing my fingers that i get the bat this week! no luck so far though .
he started out as the red bat, but found that simply wasn' t very scary .
the only featured character mentioned in the event chest is the morthani’s will. why are you assuming there’s a high chance of getting crimson bat? i used to be under the impression that the troops offered in the event chest are all from the same kingdom as the featured character. i learned that’s not true last week .
in 2008 shochiku produced an official female spin - off film from zatoichi called ichi which is about a blind swordswoman who is looking for zatoichi. it was all right but there is something a little more entertaining about the crimson bat series. maybe it’s the lower budget, the ’70s music and the gratuitous blood but it’s an entertaining time killer .
the other critics are off base comparing crimson bat to zatoichi. they are different films with different tones, delivering different messages. zatoichi is highly dramatic and incorporates zen bushido. judged on it' s own merits, crimson bat is a less preachy action flick with a female lead who kicks butt. it has a seventies feel due to its music, sound effects, and color schemes. i enjoy the use of dramatic lighting of black and white noir film applied to color. you get a sword fight in every town and on every road as oichi rights injustice and avoids bounty hunters. more akin to television westerns, it has better production value than bruce lee films and is simply entertaining .
just a reminder to all of the ones that recently joined and doesnt know everything about the game yet, as well as the less active players. one of the greatest legendaries is now in the event chest, the crimson bat. he has just been buffed to gain + 8 more life on each cast, now getting totally + 16 life for each cast, and is among the best true damage troops in the game .
it’s still one of the 4 cards i don’t own. the silent one, gaar’nok (i think i spelled it right), psion and that bat. i won’t get desperate i got a very first gorgotha two days ago in a glory chest .
the crimson bat is a series of four movies based around the character of the same name. the character was a blind swordswoman. it was made by shochiku studios, as a response to the hugely successful zatoichi series. the character, oichi, was very similar to the zatoichi character, that is she was a blind sword fighter who roamed and did odd jobs for money. the main difference, apart from being a female, was that her weakness was a stereotyped female tendency to be emotional. ironically, an official female variation of zatoichi was released decades later, and entitled ichi .
the action is decent too, with matsuyama definitely operating a step above her first outing; although these aren’t usually so much fights, more the swift dispatch of one or more opponents, that’s par for the chambara genre. matsuka is somewhat of an enigma as a character – it’s hard to see why oichi falls for him, and the whole “orphan” plotline is not well handled. in particular, it’s lacking any kind of background, to the extent it feels like an entire film was missing. the rest of the story though, is well - crafted and packs a solid wallop; you could certainly argue that this is the best flight of the crimson bat .
officially, the four crimson bat movies were adaptations of teruo tanashita' s mekura no oichi manga. but you' d have to be blind yourself not to see that this was shochiku' s barely disguised attempt at doing their own zatoichi character. if they never quite managed to reach the same levels of success as daiei did with their blind masseur, shochiku at least had the prettier one of the blind protagonists. yoko matsuyama, wife of mangaka tanashita, stars as oichi – the orphaned woman who is blinded as young and later rescued, taken in and taught the way of the sword by a wandering samurai. as is often the case in these movies, oichi is wandering the land in search of vengeance (on…
hey, sure thing that bat is an awesome troop, but if it isn’t dropping randomly from pure luck, there’s no point for a new - ish player to try to get him via event chests. but if you have hundreds or thousands of gems, hell yes, you will get him, even raise him to mythic .
that swordswoman is oichi, supposedly based on an animated story and character by teruo tanashita – but, really, who are they trying to kid? this was simply the shochiku’s studio’s answer to daiei’s zatoichi, and any protestations to the contrary should be treated with deep scepticism. both hero and heroine are blind, yet have no problem fighting for truth, justice and the amer…japanese way, as they wander through the traditional chambara landscape. [ indeed, in the first film, a blind masseuse wobbles drunkenly through one scene, in what can only be a casual potshot at zatoichi ] original thought is not something to look for in the crimson bat series, even ardent fans will admit. however, shochiku did strike gold in yuko matsuyama; albeit they didn’t have to look very far to find her, since she was married to character creator tanashita. i get the feeling shochiku didn’t exactly over - exert themselves in a star search .
there are now eleven final clubs: a. d. , bat, delphic, d. u. , fly, fox, iroquois, owl, phoenix s. k. , porcellian, and spee. with the exception of the bat, each club has its own building and serves daily meals. the club sponsors a few parties and dances; it provides a library, club room, bar, and pool tables for its members. beyond this, the final club does little. the contrast with the nation' s fraternities is evident: the clubs have no athletic teams. they enter no candidate in local beauty contests. for the most part, they permit no women in the club houses. but most important, the spirit of a harvard club is entirely different from a fraternity or even from its counterparts in the ivy league. the clubs depend on a quiet acceptance in the college for removed from
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and tap days. final clubs, like those oft - lampooned organizations for london or new york businessmen, have no reason for existing. and they seek no purpose. they have sprung up over the years for the enjoyment or convenience of their members and as long as they continue to attract men, they will continue .
she’s no luckier with her foster parent, who is murdered by a former associate, devil denzou (amatsu); she is saved from the same fate by a wandering samurai. he sees her potential and trains her in the way of the sword, to the point where she has surpassed him. but she mentions the m - word – “marriage” – and he, too, exits like a, er, bat out of hell. on subsequent travels, she uses her skills to save yet another man from being lynched, and eventually, all these disparate plot threads join up, more or less. though others, such as the woman with a killer yo - yo [ gogo yubari’s ancestor? ] just kinda drift out of the plot .
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while the samurai is one of the most common archetypes in japanese cinema, the female version is about as rare as the female gunslinger. although none of these women reached anything like the popularity of zatoichi – 26 films starring shintaro katsu alone, never mind the recent takeshi kitano version – there have been a few that have attempted to break the mould. azumi and the princess blade have both achieved cult status in the west, assisted by tarantino’s take in kill bill, volume 1. back in 1973, there was lady snowblood, which was successful enough to merit a sequel the following year, but so far, only one samurai - ess series has survived more than two outings .
proper english - language distribution. however, we don’t let things like that stop us. : -) while dubbed versions of all four films in the saga are available on the grey market, the bootleg prints seem to have dutch, or occasionally greek, subtitles. this lends the whole thing a certain surreal air, though as dubs go, they aren’t bad – an opinion no doubt assisted by the characters, who generally prefer to let their actions speak louder than their words. and since even
[ august 2005, bill f writes: “you may be interested to learn that after the last film it was turned into a television series. the film series was produced by shochiku. the tv series was produced by toei. like the films, the tv series starred yuko matsuyama. the tv series also starred hiroshi fujioka and it ran for 25 episodes (4 / 12 / 71 – 9 / 27 / 71). ” ]
we meet our heroine oichi as a young child, who has just been being abandoned by her mother – not sure what happened to father, but we later discover mom’s a prostitute, so can probably fill in the blanks ourselves. to make matters worse, the tree under which oichi takes shelter from a storm is struck by lightning, rendering her totally blind, in a way that’s – probably wisely – left medically unexplained. however, she is then taken in by a kind gentleman, who brings her up, and on into adulthood .
the film is at its best when there is the threat of violence; much like sergio leone, the lead - up lasts much longer than the actual acts, with the director ratcheting up the tension. for example, there’s one scene where oichi visits a gambling parlour to raise money, and from the moment she sits down, you
it’s just a matter of time before her sword comes out of its red sheath (which presumably is the origin of her name – that, and the copious blood that tends to get sprayed when she’s around). there’s also a nice visual sense at work throughout here, particularly in lighting, which enhances proceedings nicely .
and, being honest, the actual drama needs all the help it can get, since it seems limp in comparison, though allowance should likely be made for the dubbing. that, however, can’t explain the bouncing back and forth in time, which may induce temporal nausea in susceptible viewers; it feels as if the finished film got tossed in the air and is shown in the order it hit the ground. and while there’s a decent “ah - hah! ” when everything ties up, this isn’t enough to justify the lengthy set - up. fewer plot threads, explored in depth, would be a major improvement .
dir: matsuda teiki star: yoko matsuyama, isamu nagato, jun tatara, satoshi amatsu a. k. a. mekura no oichi monogatari: makkana nagaredoni
, seems quite content with her life as a bounty - huntress. she has even adopted an orphan, just as she herself was taken in herself, but two things wreck this relatively happy situation. she discovers her protege is really a runaway, not an orphan, and consequently has to abandon her – again, as she was discarded. worse yet, she incurs the wrath of fellow bounty - huntress oen (matsuoka), a kitten with a whip
pockets full of venomous snakes, who leaves oichi for dead. luckily, she is nursed back to health by matsuka (irikawa), a farmer who doesn’t care about her shady past, and oichi discovers the joys of a simpler existence – specifically, one not involving the slaughter of criminals for cash. of course, the inevitable eventually happens: local thug bunzo (abe) starts taking the locals’ rice stocks, with oen closely in tow. no prizes for guessing that the quiet life isn’t going to last long, especially after matsuka is manipulated by oen into owing a gambling debt to bunzo .
this is a fine movie, with matusoka in particular a grand foil for the heroine, her hair covering one half of her face like a veil, and the other half usually displaying a near - psychotic expression. oichi’s struggles to leave her past behind feel almost like shakespearean tragedy, and the final shots of the film, while a sudden way to end, hint strongly at an endless, futile struggle. to paraphrase george orwell, if you want a picture of the future, imagine a samurai sword slicing up an opponent…forever. downbeat? hell, yes. wouldn’t have it any other way .
dir: matsuda teiki stars: yoko matsuyama, yasunori irikawa, kikko matsuoka, toru abe a. k. a. mekura no oichi monogatari: jigoku hada
the third entry in the series saw a new director, and unfortunately, a marked turn for the worse, largely because the focus drifts off oichi. it starts briskly enough, with the heroine coming into possession of a new, effective formula for gunpowder, something barely known at the time in japan. understandably, this makes her the focus of attention, in particular for a group with an interest in profiting from the discovery .
hands. moral doubts aside, the main flaw is the introduction of characters such as gennosuke (ibuku) and, worse still, an immensely irritating pair of teenage orphans. together, they succeed in making oichi feel like a supporting character in her own movie, and she is almost entirely absent from action in the middle portion .
by the time she rides to the rescue…yes, i said “rides”, her previously unmentioned equestrian skills being hand - waved away with “the horse knows where it’s going”…the film is pretty much dead in the water. the final battle does mark another step up in scale, with matsuyama’s skills again clearly improved, and the quantity of enemies dispatched again setting a high - water mark, even if gennosuke gets to take out almost as many as oichi, and the way in which the villainous henchman suddenly switches sides is laughable. in marked contrast to its two predecessors, this does have a proper ending, tying up the loose threads in a satisfying, if conventional, way. it isn’t enough to rescue the day, with interest having succumbed at a disturbingly early point .
in its incarnation as samurai woman (left), i believe this was the only installment to see a release in the uk. when first seen, over a decade ago, it was unimpressive, and it remains weak, particularly when viewed from an action heroine perspective. but even in general terms, it’s a poor piece of cinematic storytelling .
dir: hirokazu ichimura stars: yoko matsuyama, goro ibuki, kiyoko inoue, asahi kurizuka a. k. a. mekura no oichi monogatari: midare gasa
director ichimura returned for the fourth episode, and despite similar problems as the third installment – most obviously, an apparent doubt that oichi’s character can hold the viewer’s interest by herself – makes a much better stab at things here. bounty - hunter oichi finds out what life is like on the other side of the law, after she helps rescue an unwilling bride from a local magistrate; he slaps a 100 gold - piece reward on her head, which naturally, brings other bounty - hunters on her trail, led by sankuro (meguro) .
she ends up in a fishing village, where the “evil property developer” subplot makes a surprising appearance, despite the historical era. the reconstruction of the harbour threatens to put the locals out of work, but a plot is afoot among the local authorities to pay them only one gold piece each in compensation, rather than the 15 gold pieces actually provided by the federal government. residents, officials, bounty - hunters and oichi all inevitably collide, including one character played by tetsuro tamba, who remains even now one of the most respected (and prolific – the imdb lists 193 films for him !) actors in japanese cinema .
there’s a lot of devious double - crossing and deception here, which is okay to watch, but isn’t really the reason we watch these things. and that it also turns out to be sankuro’s birthplace is too much of a fluke to swallow. fortunately, it all builds nicely to an extended finale, where our heroine (now also framed for the murder of a village elder) gets a chance to take out her aggression and resentment on all those who have turned her life into that of a hunted animal. it’s a great urban battle, through the town which is being demolished around her, in and out of buildings until she finally confronts the chief villain of the piece .
though this was the last entry in the series, there isn’t much sense of closure at the end, with (and i trust i’m not really spoiling this for anyone) oichi merely walking off into the sunset, alone again, naturally. one senses shochiku were hoping to continue, but for whatever reason – most likely box - office success, or rather, the lack thereof – it never materialised. however, for a series from the 60’s, it was undeniably ahead of its time, and most of the films have survived the passage of three and a half decades in an impressive style. if any enterprising dvd company were to snap them up, the rewards would likely be significant .
dir: hirokazu ichimura stars: yoko matsuyama, yuki meguro, tetsuro tanaba, reiko oshida a. k. a. mekura no oichi monogatari: inochi moraimasu
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a young girl named oichi is abandoned by her mother. blinded by a lightning strike she is taken in by a caring elderly gentleman. when her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin who may or may not be involved with her guardian’s death. as she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. many test her sword and many die by her skills. she travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge .
widely regarded as an inferior knockoff of the zatoichi movies, this time featuring a blind woman carrying a sword cane with menace .
there are many problems with the movie, but the premise is not one of them: i like zatoichi and i don' t mind knockoffs. but it' s the execution was really lacking. like many of these movies intended to start a series, they spend an inordinate amount of time laying pipe, and this dragged the pace down a lot. the sets looked really cheap and stagey. i wasn' t surprised to learn that the director, sadatsugu matsuda, was 63 years old and working on his second - to - last feature (how old was he? he made his first movie before the great depression). the…
the obvious influence here is zatoichi yet i can' t help but think that this screen adaptation of a popular manga, the first of four films, is also shochiku' s answer to the red peony gambler series. i mean, even the music at the end is similar. overall it' s pretty good but certainly uneven, suffering toward the end. the first 45 minutes or so are very good, quite artfully done, building the story whilst filling in our characters' backstories through a series of flashbacks that are quite deftly woven into the film, courtesy of director sadatsugu matsuda. he incorporates a lot of cool studio effects that i would more readily associate with nikkatsu films, as well as some clever editing .
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yoko matsuyama, already well known to the japanese public in the 60s due to her leading tv role in seven faces of princess koto (kotohime shichi henge), here takes to the big screen as the eponymous sightless swordswoman - a character developed in a successful manga comic by her husband teruo tanashita. deserted by her mother when blinded in a storm as a child, she is on a perennial quest to find the killers of her father .
the film under review here being the first of the series, a good part of the running time is given over to flashbacks establishing the character and background of the kimono - clad avenging angel. there' s the usual edo period flavour, bright colours and stylised sequences of gymnastic swordplay, but essentially little else other than the attractive facade presented by blind oichi herself .
there are few plot intricacies and surface details to distinguish this from other genre offerings of the period such as the wicked priest series (gokuaku bozu, 1968 -' 74), an early outing for lone wolf star tomisaburo wakayama. the dubbed video release seen here added to the charm, and it goes without saying that if you like martial arts films, you' ll no doubt take to this. personally i found toshiya fujita' s similar lady snowblood (shurayukihime, 1973), which also had the virtue of only stretching to one sequel, to be rather more satisfying .
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oichi was left behind by her mother when she was 7 years old and lost her eye sight from lightening. she was saved by ukita who was a sword master and taught her how to protect herself. however, when he finds out that oichi had fallen in love with him .
oichi the blind female samurai is given a secret scroll to be delivered to murobuse. many swordsmen challenge her for the scroll which contains information on a new secret weapon. will she be able to deliver the scroll before getting killed or capture ?
i think the% of getting him in an event chest is around 8% . and one event key is costing like 15 gems. i would had loved to have some data on this tho, about the% of getting an legendary out of an event chest .
i’d disagree with that. if you’re in an active guild with a steady supply of gems, it’s totally worth it to crank through event chests in either of these situations :
( 1) you’re only missing a handful of legendaries and the event chests have one of them, or (2) you’re missing a lot of legendaries, and the event chests have a good one .
i don’t think it’s worth buying event chests over a 500 - gem armor, but if either of the above situations applies i think it’s better to buy event chests over gem chests .
50 event chests, 200 glory chests, got 2 bats today. yay rng .
i spent the 675 gems to get 50 event keys hoping to get queen mab or borealis because yeti was the featured character. i got about 24 yeti’s, but no queen mab or borealis. i did however get lots of troops from other kingdoms .
@ synergy, congrats! @ ashasekayi, fingers are crossed for you. hopefully you will get one soon .
i too tried this but had no luck. now need to save up so i can try another batch of 10 .
@ studs sorry to hear that… i’ve had some lucky i’ve tried it on the kingdoms i don’t have the legendary too and i’ve lucked out a couple of times now pulling them .
event chests for legendaries aren’t worth it unless you can mass buy them and it is one of the last troops you are missing (and / or you are looking to get the ultra rare / epics ascended as well). the chance to pull a legendary is roughly the same as a gem chest for 1. 5x the cost, but a legendary will always be from the event kingdom (there is also no chance to pull a mythic from the event chest). you need to keep in mind that rng is inherently streaky - i’ve pulled two troops i was missing from a kingdom with at little as 7 event keys before, but most weeks take over 50. last week took 137 keys to get borealis after getting two mab in the first 87, and i’ve heard of others using upwards of 200 keys to get a single target legendary. bottom line is to not buy event chests unless you can afford them, and don’t have expectations .
just adding some more data to increase the sample size reported here. today i opened 50 event chests and got 3 bats. i think sirrian mentioned that legendary drop rate was improved in 2. 0. hopefully it is up there at 8% now for gem / event chests like eika says. (i really want another 4 bats before the week ends so i can go mythic and have 2 left over. )
amazing pulls, sircookie. 3 out of 50 event chests is very good !
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about 140 sophomores are making the most important decision of their undergraduate social lives this morning. the college' s final clubs last night chose their members from the class of' 56; those elected were notified at 8: 00 a. m. by club members; by noon the sophomore must accept or reject all bids. and as one student sits in his room choosing between the club his great - grandfather belonged to and the one his friends have picked, the rest of the college sleeps or goes to class, oblivious and wholly unconcerned with clubs, club activities, or club membership .
while it is perhaps fitting that indifference should be the general attitude of the harvard undergraduate to the final club, such was not always the case. the history of the club system, through secret phases and periods of national affiliation, is now a completed cycle. and the position of the clubs, from a pre - eminent place in the college to a membership of 10 per cent of the undergraduates, reflects, if sometimes inversely, the growth of harvard as a national institution .
the attraction of the club when the system first began is easy to understand. the porcellian club, legend has it, began when a man in hollis hall found a suckling pig in his room. he hid the animal in a window seat until evening and then invited a few friends in to roast the pig. the evening was so pleasant that they determined to meet alternate friday evenings for fellowship and supper. they first called themselves
the argonauts ,
but when roast pig turned up month after month on the menu, the group came to be known as the
pig club .
from 1879, with the entrance of the first pig, to 1794 the club gained in prestige. finally, under joseph mckean, grand marshall of the club and founder of the organization as it is today, the members adopted the more gentlemanly name of
porcellian .
with its early beginning and 164 years of tradition, porcellian has always represented the final club to the non - clubbed world. begun in an era when cambridge was small, isolated, and arid in entertainment, the club provided a necessary social break in the scholastic routine. the porcellian' s motto dum vivimus vivamus was typical of the early attitude of the members - - no lofty mission, no serious purpose, just jovial pleasantry .
though porcellian frankly admitted its lack of direction, other clubs springing up in this period often claimed loftier motives. the hasty pudding club, formed in 1795, purported to
cherish the feelings of friendship and patriotism .
to serve the latter purpose, the club celebrated washington' s birthday for many years with a program of orations, patriotic songs and speeches. under the first constitution of the club ,
two members, in alphabetical order, shall provide a pot of hasty - pudding for every meeting ,
and from this, the name .
a rival to the pudding was the institute of 1770, an organization devoted chiefly to oratory. the club was also dubbed
the speaking club ,
but since the group wished to keep its nature secret to non - members, the name was dropped. during the first half of the nineteenth century, clubs arose, grew, and merged. the hermetic society and the i. o. h. joined the institute, the latter bringing with it an extensive library. both the serious and the social groups had begun collecting books, filling in the chinks in college libraries .
it was in this period that the clubs began to change in character. the pudding gave up much of its attempt at a scholarly tone and porcellian members began to consider the background of its candidates as well as their wit or agreeable character. this was the beginning of a welter of greek - letter fraternities. phi beta kappa had been the first in 1776, but when other fraternities appeared they followed the lead of the established local clubs and emphasized the social over the intellectual .
since undergraduates were scattered throughout boarding houses and memorial hall was never a popular dining hall, clubs went far in focusing student activity and providing meals in congenial surroundings. as the practical value of a club to its member increased, prestige in belonging to one grew also. the size of the college was doubling every thirty years from 1860 to 1920, and while there still were many clubs, selectivity had become the keynote in electing members .
when theodore roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to nicholas longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed kaiser wilhelm that he and nick had both belonged to the porc. at that time, roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son - in - law. boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. and the institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed dickeys, from the name of a secret society d. k. e. for those undergraduates with the correct background it was all - important that they be elected to the dickey - - it meant certain social success in college and afterward. and even in 1926 when the pudding and the institute merged, the club sent out a list of members, in the order which they had been elected. this ranking was published in boston and new york papers and served as a convenient method for plucking the near from the eligible .
in later years, the dickey has disappeared. hasty pudding remains as a common ground for all clubs with a membership of over 600. members are chosen from a list of candidates put up by friends in the club and passed on by the 11 presidents of the final clubs. hasty pudding also serves meals but is chiefly popular for its extensive, reasonable - priced bar; and leo, one of the last of the irish tenor barmen. since many of the final clubs do not permit women guests, the hasty pudding also gives dances throughout the football season .
the hasty pudding ,
says one member ,
has no particular social barrier - - the only consideration is more or less if you' re a nice guy .
in this respect the hasty pudding differs much from the society as it existed in the 1890' s, and indeed from the final club in most eras. it was in the' 90s that nation - wide fraternities were losing their grip on college chapters. the local groups wanted more independence; the national organization, more control. throughout the 1890s' clubs were detaching themselves from the fraternity system. porcellian and a. d. , which had broken off from the harvard chapter of alpha delta phi, were joined by other final clubs. another fraternity effort to refound alpha delta phi terminated in the phli and finally the fly club .
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on the plus side it looks like i got refunded the gems i spent .
i bought ki gold for this and i really hope i get refunded. have they said if there going to be any kind of way to get it back ?
we haven’t said a word yet. i hope to know more tomorrow. believe it or not, the snow day in portland, or is what caused this not to get reinstated today .
meanwhile down here in arkansas we’ve experienced all 4 seasons within the span of a week. today’s summer, i suppose. i’m hoping winter comes back soon .
we aren’t used to it in the northwest. they had more snow down in portland than they’ve had in the last 37 years !
the pack is back up but i still dont have my ki gold back. do we now how long the pack will be up ?
i have no idea. i just took a risk and got it when i saw it .
. that’s the twist. it’s a blind swordswoman instead of a blind swordsman. yôko matsuyama stars as oichi, a young woman who was abandoned as a child, blinded by lightning bolt and raised by a foster family. the foster family is murdered by a bad guy, oichi is saved and later trained by a wandering samurai who also left her after she got better with the sword than him. she was also hinting at marriage which might have had something to do with it. the rest of film has her wandering from town to town saving people and kicking butt .
where oichi fights an evil female bounty hunter who uses a whip. this was followed by the less successful
( 1970). apparently in 1971 there was a 25 episode tv series and then the character faded into obscurity. the films have never had a north american release although there have been random versions released in other countries with bad dubs. a search on the interwebs finds nothing physical to buy in terms of dvds or blu - rays but apparently some of the sequels are available on hulu if you live in the u. s .
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a young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. however, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder .
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a young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. when her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling “ronin”. she travels to seek her mother and her revenge .
oichi the blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. the official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin .
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crimson bat is the international title for the series of four jidaigeki films ( three from 1969 and one from 1970 ) based on the character blind oichi ( めくらのお市 mekura no oichi ) . 
crimson bat is the international title for the series of four jidaigeki films (three from 1969 and one from 1970) based on the character blind oichi (めくらのお市 mekura no oichi).
crimson bat is the international title for the series of four jidaigeki films (three from 1969 and one from 1970) based on the character blind oichi (めくらのお市 mekura no oichi).