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Zatoichi the Fugitive (座頭市兇状旅)
Zatoichi the Fugitive (座頭市兇状旅, Masseur Ichi, The Fugitive) is a 1963 Daiei jidaigeki, the fourth Zatoichi film, directed by Tokuzo Tanaka and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman hunted for a ten-ryō bounty in Jōshū Shimonita.
Zatoichi the Outlaw (座頭市牢破り)
Zatoichi the Outlaw (座頭市牢破り, Zatoichi royaburi), also The Blind Swordsman's Rescue, is a 1967 Daiei chambara, the 16th Zatoichi film and first Katsu Production title, directed by Satsuo Yamamoto, starring Shintaro Katsu and Rentaro Mikuni, released August 12, 1967.
Zatoichi's Cane Sword (座頭市鉄火旅)
Zatoichi's Cane Sword (座頭市鉄火旅, Zatoichi tekkatabi), also released as The Blind Swordsman's Cane-Sword, is the 15th Zatoichi film, released January 3, 1967 by Daiei and directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda; a blacksmith reveals the hero's cane sword will snap on its next kill, driving the plot.
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り), 1973 Toho chambara film, 25th and last of the original Zatoichi features; directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, starring Shintaro Katsu returning to his hometown Kasama.
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (座頭市あばれ凧)
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (座頭市あばれ凧, The Sword of Zatoichi) is a 1964 Daiei chambara film, seventh in the Zatoichi series, directed by Kazuo Ikehiro, starring Shintaro Katsu, with an underwater duel and fireworks-lit finale.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (座頭市海を渡る)
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (座頭市海を渡る) is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro and starring Shintaro Katsu. It is the fourteenth Zatoichi series entry, based on a story by Kan Shimozawa.
Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える)
Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える, Zatoichi no uta ga kikoeru) is the 13th Zatoichi film, a 1966 Daiei chambara directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, starring Shintaro Katsu, with Shigeru Amachi as rival ronin Kurobe and a famous drum-accompanied duel.
Zatolmilast
Zatolmilast (BPN14770; also S-898270) is an investigational oral PDE4D inhibitor developed for Fragile X syndrome, discovered by Tetra Therapeutics, which Shionogi acquired in 2020; it is not yet approved.
Zatre
Zatre is a tile-laying board game by German designer Manfred Schüling, released commercially in 1993, in which numbered tiles form lines totaling 10, 11, or 12.
Zauberberg
Zauberberg (Magic Mountain) is a 2021 Amigo cooperative marble-run children's game by Jens-Peter Schliemann and Bernhard Weber; players roll wisp marbles to move apprentices downhill, winning Kinderspiel des Jahres 2022.
Zaum (заумь)
Zaum (заумь, "beyonsense") is speech without fixed meaning, coined by Aleksei Kruchenykh in 1913 and central to Russian Cubo-Futurism, later revived by Soviet unofficial poets.
Zauriel
Zauriel, DC Comics angel superhero created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter, first appearing in JLA #6 (1997); a former Hawkman substitute, Eagle Host guardian angel, Justice League member, and 2024 Outsiders returnee.
Zauschwitz
Zauschwitz (Pegau, Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony; formerly Kr. Borna) is a multi-period German archaeological site with a Globular Amphora culture double burial beside a triple cattle deposition, a Salzmünde infant grave, and a Roman Iron Age Germanic urnfield.
Zăvalu
Zăvalu: ancient fort or tower site cited on Barrington Atlas map 21 F6, at Zăval village, Dolj County, Romania, near the Jiu-Danube confluence; a 2nd-century earthen camp, destroyed by an 1890 flood, with no confirmed Late Roman fortification.
Zavegepant
Zavegepant (Zavzpret) is a Pfizer CGRP receptor antagonist nasal spray approved by FDA March 9, 2023 for acute migraine with or without aura in adults; 10 mg single spray, ~5% bioavailability, NNT 11 for 2-hour pain freedom.
Zaverchand Meghani
Zaverchand Meghani (ઝવેરચંદ મેઘાણી) was a Gujarati poet and folklorist of British India, born in 1896, who collected Saurashtra's folk songs and wrote for the freedom movement.
Zaverio M. Ruggeri
Zaverio M. Ruggeri is a hematology researcher and Professor Emeritus at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for work on platelet adhesion and von Willebrand disease.
Zavier Lucero
Zavier Vicente Lucero (born 1999), Filipino-American forward from Vallejo, California; UP Fighting Maroons UAAP champion, fifth pick of the 2023 PBA Draft, now with Magnolia Hotshots.
Zavier Scott
Zavier Scott, NFL running back (born 1999, Fort Hood, TX), UConn and Maine college player, Colts and Vikings practice-squad veteran, debuted with Minnesota in 2025, signed by the Chicago Bears in 2026.
Zavion Thomas
Zavion Thomas (born 2002) is an American football wide receiver and return specialist for the Chicago Bears, drafted 89th overall in 2026 after college careers at Mississippi State and LSU; he ran a 4.28-second 40-yard dash and scored 11 college touchdowns four different ways.
Zavodski Rayon
Zavodski Rayon (Zavodskoy Rayon, "Factory District") is one of Minsk's nine administrative districts in Belarus, an industrial area in the city's south-east that includes the Minsk Automobile Plant and the Free Economic Zone "Minsk".
Zăvoi Roman Camp
Zăvoi Roman Camp (Agnaviae/Acmonia): Roman earth fort, 336 x 336 m, in Zăvoi, Caraș-Severin, Romania, on the Tibiscum–Sarmizegetusa road; Trajanic garrison cohors I Sagittariorum, abandoned after AD 117–118.
Zawa
Zawa is an ancient cemetery or necropolis in the Marmarica desert near the Siwa oasis region of Libya and Egypt, a Roman-period (30 BC–AD 300) burial site recorded in Barrington Atlas map 73 and Pleiades place 716649.
Zawabit-i Alamgiri
Zawabit-i Alamgiri (زوابط عالمگیری) refers to the secular decrees issued by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb alongside the sharia, covering his 1669 court music ban, morality inspectors, and land revenue rules.
Zawada
Zawada (plural Zawady) names several Polish villages: a large early medieval stronghold near Tarnów, a Roman-period cemetery with a Nero aureus in Staszów county, strongholds near Opole and Zielona Góra, and World War I cemeteries.
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton (Zawedde Emma Ashton, born 1984, Hackney, London) is a British actress and playwright known for Vod in Fresh Meat, Joyce Vincent in Dreams of a Life, Velvet Buzzsaw, Betrayal on Broadway, and Dar-Benn in The Marvels (2023).
Zawen
Zawen (杂文, "miscellaneous writing") is a genre of modern Chinese literature: a short, satirical essay of social criticism, most closely associated with the writer Lu Xun.
Zawgyi
Zawgyi (ဇော်ဂျီ) was the pen name of Burmese poet and literary critic U Thein Han (1907–1990), a leader of the Khitsan movement modernizing Burmese poetry.
Zawi ibn Ziri
Zawi ibn Ziri (زاوي بن زيري) was a Sanhaja Berber chief of the Zirid family who founded the Zirid taifa kingdom of Granada in al-Andalus in 1013.
Zawisza Czarny
Zawisza Czarny (Zawisza the Black of Garbów, c. 1370 – 1428) was a Polish knight, the most famous of medieval Poland, who fought at Grunwald in 1410.