Funny things, these cult movies. They command the fiercest of loyalty from their fans, who will forgive any nonsensical plot twist, lack of characterization and other flaws that may pop up.

That's the sense we got from a recent screening of the Japanese samurai flick The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, the latest in a series of movies about a wandering, sightless masseur who has all sorts of bloody adventures in 19th-century Japan. That's right: A masseur.
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