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Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Adventure, Action, Drama · 1h 27m
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.
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Jūshirō Konoe
Miwa Takada
Yukiji Asaoka
Mikiko Tsubouchi
Mie Nakao
Takao Itō
Asao Koike
Midori Isomura
Tatsuo Matsumura
Eitarō Ozawa
Jōtarō Senba
Crew
- Director
- Kenji Misumi
- Screenplay
- Ryōzō Kasahara
- Director of Photography
- Chikashi Makiura
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Editor
- Toshio Taniguchi
- Producer
- Ikuo Kubodera
Details
- Original title
- 座頭市血煙り街道
- Release date
- 1967-12-30
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film