Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
6.8(81) 1970-01-15 115 minAdventureActionDrama
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.
DirectorKihachi Okamoto
ProducerShintarō Katsu
Original Music ComposerAkira Ifukube
ScreenplayKihachi Okamoto
ScreenplayTetsurō Yoshida
Cast & characters
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
as —
Daigo Kusano
as —
Fujio Tokita
as —
Gen Kimura
as —
Hiroshi Tanaka
as —
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Hiroto Kimura
as —
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Ryutaro Itsumi
as —
Yūji Hamada
as —
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Kazu Echikawa
as —
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Gen Kuroki
as —
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Junshiro Araseki
as —
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Yoko Netsuda
as —
Minori Terada
as —
