Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Zatôichi jigoku-tabi
87 min
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.
- Release date
- December 24, 1965
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Akira Ifukube
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Cast
- Shintarō Katsu as Zatôichi
- Mikio Narita as Tadasu Jumonji
- Kaneko Iwasaki as Tane
- Gaku Yamamoto as Tomonoshin Sagawa
- Saburô Date
- Tatsuo Endô as Yakuza Boss of Ejimaya
- Takuya Fujioka
- Ryo Horikawa
- Rokkô Toura
- Kanae Kobayashi as Widow Tarozaemon
- Fujio Suga as Injury prone Banyu yakuza
- Yukiko Takabayashi as Kume
- Naomi Fujiyama as Miki
- Tarô Marui as Roppei
- Ryûtarô Gomi
- Keiko Koyanagi
- Ichirô Yamamoto
- Chizu Hayashi as Kume
- Naoko Fujiyama as Miki
- Ryutaro Gomi
Crew
- Kenji Misumi · Director
- Daisuke Itō · Writer
- Kan Shimozawa · Writer
- Hisashi Okuda · Producer
- Akira Ifukube · Composer
- Chikashi Makiura · Cinematographer
- Akira Naitô · Production designer