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Directed by Kimiyoshi YasudaGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Shiho Fujimura,
Eijirō Tōno,
Masumi Harukawa,
Makoto Fujita,
Ryūji KitaRating74%
In a town dominated by yakuza, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters a master swordsmith named Senzo (Tōno) who identifies Zatoichi's cane sword as the work of his late mentor. Senzo also spots a crack in the blade and warns that it will snap after one more kill., 1h27
Directed by Kenji MisumiGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Miwa Takada,
Yukiji Asaoka,
Asao Koike,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Tatsuo MatsumuraRating74%
Zatoichi (Katsu) checks into an inn where he shares a room with an ill woman and her young son named Ryota. Before the woman dies, she requests that Zatoichi take her son to his father, an artist living in the nearby town of Maebara., 1h36
Directed by Satsuo YamamotoGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Rentarō Mikuni,
Kō Nishimura,
Toshiyuki Hosokawa,
Mizuho Suzuki,
Saburo DateRating69%
In a rural village, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters Shushi Ohara (Suzuki; modeled after 18th-century agriculturalist Yagaku Ohara) a sword-less ronin who defends himself against multiple attackers without killing them. Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the abstention from gambling, drinking, and whoring., 1h23
Genres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Jun Hamamura,
Mayumi Ogawa,
Shigeru Amachi,
Kei Satō,
Saburo DateRating72%
Traveling on the road, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters a dying man who gives him a bag full of money and the name "Taichi". Traveling on, he makes the acquaintance of a blind biwa-playing priest. The two travel to a town that is having their annual thunder drum festival. The town is under the domination of a Yakuza boss who extorts from the people., 1h27
Directed by Kenji MisumiGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Films about chess,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Mikio Narita,
Saburo Date,
Ryō HorikawaRating72%
On a boat trip to Honshu island, Zatoichi (Katsu) makes the acquaintance of Jumonji (Narita), an expert shogi (Japanese chess) player and swordsman. Once on Honshu, a group of men that had tried to cheat Zatoichi at dice try to take revenge upon him- only for Ichi to turn the tables on them in the tussle. However, Miki, the niece of a woman named Otane, is injured in the confusion, compelling Ichi to go to great lengths to procure the medicine needed to cure her injury. When she recovers, the child sincerely thanks him, leaving him overwrought with emotion., 1h18
Directed by Kazuo MoriGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Sachiko MuraseRating68%
Zatoichi (Katsu) is given 50 lashes for illegal gambling in Shimokura. While in jail, his cellmate Shimazo (Mizuhara) claims to have been jailed on false charges of housebreaking, arson, and murder, pleading with Ichi to contact one of his influential associates who can vouch for his innocence and to inform his wife and daughter of his situation., 1h26
Directed by Kimiyoshi YasudaGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Miwa Takada,
Akitake Kōno,
Kichijirō Ueda,
Mikijirō HiraRating71%
On his way to a village to celebrate the New Year's festival, Zatoichi is asked by a man to deliver a message to a woman. Upon delivery, he rooms with a young women who is searching for her missing father., 1h22
Genres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Bokuzen Hidari,
Ryosuke KagawaRating71%
A young Yakuza, who is looking to make a name for himself, shoots Zatoichi in the back with a musket. Zatoichi is wounded, but is aided by a stranger: Miss Kuni. After recovering, Zatoichi travels to her home to thank her and repay her kindness by assisting in what household chores he can do., 1h23
Genres Drama,
ActionThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Shōgo Shimada,
Tomisaburō Wakayama,
Saburo DateRating72%
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay respects at the grave of a man he killed two years earlier. At the grave he reminisces on a fight between the two yakuza gangs (Iioka and Sasagawa from an earlier film) one man ran away and, though Ichi was not taking part in the fight, attacked Ichi. The dead man's sister, Chiyo, overhears Ichi say this to himself., 1h22
Directed by Kimiyoshi YasudaGenres Drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
Gangster filmsActors Shintarō Katsu,
Takashi ShimuraRating72%
Zatoichi comes to a village which is the local hub of family farms in a silk growing region. The most prominent villager is Matsugoro who apparently will stop at nothing to bring all under his control. The small village does have a kind doctor, Dr. Junan, who lives with his daughter Oshizu.