EUROPE IMAGES INTERNATIONAL - M5

Synopsis

Choreography: Carlotta Ikeda
Music : Christian Lauba
Scenography: Stéphane Vérité
Costumes: Patrick Téroitin
Light: Christian Dubet
Recorded in November 2007 at the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux
With the Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra conducted by
Geoffrey Styles
Zatoichi is a mystery. He cannot see. His eyes are blank. Zato wanders endlessly the world over.
He errs through time, a vagabond. Alone, desperately alone, in the midst of a Japanese society slipping into decadence. He is poor and of interest to nobody. Rubbing shoulders with peasants and prostitutes, he plays in gambling dens and observes the world of these people of no consequence from the inside.
And then, suddenly, he becomes the dispenser of justice...fighting social inequality, misguided samurais, criminal organisations and corrupt authorities.
And he wins … again and again.
From his blind man's stick springs a formidable sabre that slice and slashes, severs limbs and cuts off the heads of his terrifying opponents. The world of those who see is not for him. He is elsewhere, nameless: the Zatoichi, the blind man. He is universal and perhaps immortal.
Zatoichi joins the mythical heroes of our childhood,

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