Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Dec 24, 1965

1h 27m

★ 6.5

Overview

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.

Genres

Adventure

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Daiei Film

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Cast

Zatoichi

Shintarō Katsu

Tadasu Jumonji

Mikio Narita

Kume

Chizu Hayashi

Otane

Kaneko Iwasaki

Tomonoshin Sagawa

Gaku Yamamoto

Saburo Date

Yakuza boss of Ejimaya

Tatsuo Endō

Takuya Fujioka

Widow Tarozaemon

Kanae Kobayashi

Injury prone Banyu yakuza

Fujio Suga

Crippled yakuza

Rokkō Toura

Miki

Naomi Fujiyama

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