Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
6.7
44 votes
1965
1h 27m
Adventure
Action
Drama
Overview
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.
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Top 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 yakuzaRokkō Toura
Crippled yakuza
Yukiko Takabayashi
Kume
Naomi Fujiyama
MikiT
Taro Marui
Roppei
Ryūtarō Gomi
Keiko Koyanagi
I
Ichirō Yamamoto
Details
Status
Released
Release date
December 24, 1965
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
Japanese
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