Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
In Theaters
December 24, 1965
Runtime: 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 & Crew
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
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Rokkō Toura
—
Kanae Kobayashi
Widow Tarozaemon
Fujio Suga
Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Rokkō Toura
Crippled yakuza
Yukiko Takabayashi
Kume
Naomi Fujiyama
Miki
- TM
Taro Marui
Roppei
Ryūtarō Gomi
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Keiko Koyanagi
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- IY
Ichirō Yamamoto
—
Kenji Misumi
Director
Daisuke Itō
Screenplay
Media
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