{"id":5658,"date":"2003-01-23T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/beat-takeshi-to-play-zatoichi\/"},"modified":"2003-01-23T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T14:12:00","slug":"beat-takeshi-to-play-zatoichi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/beat-takeshi-to-play-zatoichi\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Takeshi to Play Zatoichi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/story.asp?storyid=10885\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Daily<\/a>, Takeshi &#8220;Beat&#8221; Kitano will star in and direct a new Zatoichi feature film. The role of blind masseur and master swordsman was made famous by the late Shintaro Katsu, who played the role in a popular TV series and 26 motion pictures. Actor\/director Takeshi Kitano has earned worldwide acclaim over the past decade as one of contemporary cinema&#8217;s master film makers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/display.cgi?id=14276\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t it Cool News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Screen Daily, Takeshi &#8220;Beat&#8221; Kitano will star in and direct a new Zatoichi feature film. The role of blind masseur and master swordsman was made famous by the late Shintaro Katsu, who played the role in a popular TV series and 26 motion pictures. Actor\/director Takeshi Kitano has earned worldwide acclaim over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}