Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

Zatôichi chikemuri kaidô

87 min★ 7.4 · 1,698 votes

• Action
• Adventure
• Drama

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Release date

December 30, 1967

Country of origin

Japan