Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
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.
- Released
- 1965-12-24
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Drama
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kenji Misumi, Daisuke Itō
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 from 45 votes
Cast
- Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi
- Mikio Narita as Tadasu Jumonji
- Kaneko Iwasaki as Otane
- Gaku Yamamoto as Tomonoshin Sagawa
- Saburo Date
- Tatsuo Endō as Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
- Takuya Fujioka
- Ryo Horikawa
- Rokkō Toura
- Kanae Kobayashi as Widow Tarozaemon
- Fujio Suga as Injury prone Banyu yakuza
- Rokkō Toura as Crippled yakuza
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