S14E02 – The Blind Menace (1960) [不知火検校]

About this episode

The episode discusses the film The Blind Menace and features guest Jonathan Wroot.

Before Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu played another blind masseur, but a much more sinister one! Japanese film scholar Jonathan Wroot makes his debut on the show to discuss The Blind Menace! Hosted by Perry Constantine Guest-Starring Jonathan Wroot Visit Jonathan's faculty profile, pick up his book The Paths of Zatoichi, or check out the movie sets he's been involved with — Cloud and Charisma and Zen and Sword. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ ⁠https://nordvpn.com/fspn⁠. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ⁠JapanOnFilm.com⁠ ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠ ⁠Threads⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠Discord⁠ ⁠Film Stories Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Perry Constantine

Guest: Jonathan Wroot

Topics covered

• Japanese cinema
• Zatoichi
• film analysis
• blind characters
• Shintaro Katsu
• guest interviews

Keywords

• The Blind Menace
• Shintaro Katsu
• Zatoichi
• Japanese film
• film scholar
• Perry Constantine
• Jonathan Wroot

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Film Stories, Japan On Film

Books & works: The Blind Menace, The Paths of Zatoichi

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