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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

1970 · 1h 55m · Adventure, Action, Drama

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

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Cast

• Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi
• Toshirō Mifune as Yojimbo/Sasa
• Ayako Wakao as Umeno
• Osamu Takizawa as Yasuke Eboshiya
• Masakane Yonekura as Boss Masagoro
• Shin Kishida as Kuzuryu
• Kanjūrō Arashi as Hyoroku
• Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Sanaemon Goto
• Shigeru Kōyama as Jinzaburo Wakiya
• Hideo Sunazuka
• Daigo Kusano
• Fujio Tokita

Details

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Released

January 15, 1970

Runtime

1h 55m

Genres

Adventure, Action, Drama

Studio

Katsu Production and Daiei Film

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.8 / 10 from 84 votes