Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- gold
- japan
- samurai
- spy
- sword fight
- zatoichi
- blind
- jidaigeki
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Masakane Yonekura — Boss Masagoro
- Shin Kishida — Kuzuryu
- Kanjūrō Arashi — Hyoroku
- Toshiyuki Hosokawa — Sanaemon Goto
- Shigeru Kōyama — Jinzaburo Wakiya
- Hideo Sunazuka
- Daigo Kusano
- Fujio Tokita
- Gen Kimura
- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Hiroto Kimura
- Directed
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Written
- Kihachi Okamoto, Tetsurō Yoshida
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 83 ratings
- Studio
- Katsu Production, Daiei Film
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1962The Tale of Zatoichi
Where it starts.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
1970 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
