Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
1965•1h 27m•6.7•Released
AdventureActionDrama
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.
Director
Kenji Misumi
Writer
Daisuke Itō
Languages
Japanese
Studio
Daiei Film
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Zatoichi
Mikio Narita
Tadasu Jumonji
Kaneko Iwasaki
Otane
Gaku Yamamoto
Tomonoshin Sagawa
Saburo Date
Tatsuo Endō
Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
Takuya Fujioka
Ryo Horikawa
Rokkō Toura
Kanae Kobayashi
Widow Tarozaemon
Fujio Suga
Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Rokkō Toura
Crippled yakuza
Yukiko Takabayashi
Kume
Naomi Fujiyama
Miki
Taro Marui
Roppei
Production
Company
Daiei Film
Producer
Hisashi Okuda
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