Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

Directed by Kenji Misumi

Adventure, Action, Drama · 1h 27m

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.

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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

Crew

Director
Kenji Misumi
Screenplay
Daisuke Itō
Director of Photography
Chikashi Makiura
Original Music Composer
Akira Ifukube
Editor
Kanji Suganuma
Producer
Hisashi Okuda

Details

Original title
座頭市地獄旅
Release date
1965-12-24
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Adventure, Action, Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Daiei Film