Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

1h 27m
AdventureActionDrama
6.6

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.

Cast

Shintarō Katsu
Zatoichi
Mikio Narita
Tadasu Jumonji
Kaneko Iwasaki
Otane
Gaku Yamamoto
Tomonoshin Sagawa
Saburo Date
Unknown
Tatsuo Endō
Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
Takuya Fujioka
Unknown
Ryo Horikawa
Unknown
Rokkō Toura
Unknown, Crippled yakuza
Kanae Kobayashi
Widow Tarozaemon
Fujio Suga
Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Yukiko Takabayashi
Kume
Naomi Fujiyama
Miki
Taro Marui
Roppei
Ryūtarō Gomi
Unknown
Keiko Koyanagi
Unknown
Ichirō Yamamoto
Unknown

Crew

Kenji Misumi
Director
Daisuke Itō
Screenplay
Kanji Suganuma
Editor
Chikashi Makiura
Director of Photography
Hisashi Okuda
Producer
Akira Naitō
Production Design
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story

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