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Everything comes full circle when Zatoichi returns to his hometown. Unfortunately, he finds that a childhood friend has become a feared crime lord, keeping the locals in debt and bilking them of their rice. Capping off Zatoichi’s feature film era before he made the transition to television in 1974, this chapter is suffused with melancholy, closing the series on a note of seriousness and emotional heft that it has well earned.
Original Release
04/21/1973
US Release
04/15/1974
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shintarô Katsu | Zatôichi / Blind Man Ichi / Zatoichi |
Yukiyo Toake | Miyo / Omiyo |
Eiji Okada | Shinbei of Hitachiya / Shinbei |
Kei Satô | Magistrate |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Superintendant Shobei / Shobei |
Shiro Kishibe | Ruffian |
Rie Yokoyama | Lily / Yuri |
Tatsuo Endô | Boss Iwagoro |
Takashi Shimura | Sakubei |
Naoyuki Asahina |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shintarô Katsu | Zatôichi / Blind Man Ichi / Zatoichi |
Yukiyo Toake | Miyo / Omiyo |
Eiji Okada | Shinbei of Hitachiya / Shinbei |
Kei Satô | Magistrate |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Superintendant Shobei / Shobei |
Shiro Kishibe | Ruffian |
Rie Yokoyama | Lily / Yuri |
Tatsuo Endô | Boss Iwagoro |
Takashi Shimura | Sakubei |
Naoyuki Asahina | |
Tamotsu Fujiharu | |
Takaji Fukui | |
Takamori Gen | |
Yûji Hamada | |
Kuniko Ishii | Virgin farmgirl |
Hiroshi Kanda | |
Masayoshi Kikuno | |
Goro Kumon | |
Nobue Matsuoka | |
Yuzo Miyashita |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Shintarô Katsu | Producer |
Ikuo Kubodera | Producer |
Hiroyoshi Nishioka | Producer |