On my way into BBC Ouch Towers this morning, I found myself thinking, "Damn, there just aren't enough Japanese movies featuring blind albino samurai swordsman who can also give a good massage on the side".

So you can imagine my surprise when - in one of those moments where you're browsing the net and click on a a link to another link via yet another link - I discovered that exactly such a movie exists! It came out last year, and it's called Zatoichi. According to the review by our colleagues on the BBC Movies site, it "[refuses] to explain the blind swordsman's remarkable skill with a blade" - quite right too, let's just accept it as a fact that all blind people are experts in the art of samurai sword-fighting, shall we? - but it does feature "artery-spurting violence in grisly detail". If you're a younger reader of Ouch, you should also note that it's an 18 certificate and "contains strong bloody violence". Nevertheless, I'm intrigued. Has anyone seen this movie? Should we be classing Zatoichi as a new disability hero of the silver screen?