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Zatoichi encounters a dying man, who asks the itinerant masseur to deliver a bag of money to his young son; he agrees to fulfill the request, finding the boy in a village terrorized by criminals. This is the first entry to scrutinize the swordsman’s methods, as a blind monk confronts Zatoichi about his violent approach to problem solving and Zatoichi finds the child turning to the same bloodstained path.
Original Release
05/03/1966
US Release
11/26/2013
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shintarô Katsu | Zatoichi |
Shigeru Amachi | Genpachiro Kuroda / Genpachiro Kurobe |
Jun Hamamura | Blind Biwa Priest |
Mayumi Ogawa | Shino / Cho / Ocho / Oshino |
Kei Satô | Boss Gonzo |
Michi Azuma | Oharu |
Saburo Date | Hanji |
Jun Fujikawa | Kamegoro / Jun Fujikawa |
Yukio Horikita | Toramatsu |
Sumao Ishihara |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shintarô Katsu | Zatoichi |
Shigeru Amachi | Genpachiro Kuroda / Genpachiro Kurobe |
Jun Hamamura | Blind Biwa Priest |
Mayumi Ogawa | Shino / Cho / Ocho / Oshino |
Kei Satô | Boss Gonzo |
Michi Azuma | Oharu |
Saburo Date | Hanji |
Jun Fujikawa | Kamegoro / Jun Fujikawa |
Yukio Horikita | Toramatsu |
Sumao Ishihara | |
Gen Kimura | Tamekichi |
Kanae Kobayashi | Tamekichi's mother |
Yukiko Komura | Oro |
Hideo Kuroki | Yakuza of Takasaki |
Masanori Machida | Taichi |
Kazue Tamaki | Kinbei |
Kazuko Taniguchi | Kamegoro's wife |
Mitsuko Yoshikawa | Mother |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ikuo Kubodera | Producer |