No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.Read moreLess
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
The story
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
Cast & crew
Shintarō KatsuZatoichi
Norihei MikiDenroku the Weasel
Mikiko TsubouchiOsayo
Takeshi KatōKoheita Kadokura
Fujio HarumotoIntendant Isoda
Saburo DateCast
Jun KatsumuraTatsugoro yakuza
Gen KimuraInspector Jingo Odate
Sachiko KobayashiTsuru
Sonosuke SawamuraBoss Tatsugoro
Yūsaku TerashimaYasakuExplore the crew
- Director
- Akira Inoue
- Original Music Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Editor
- Hiroshi Yamada
- Director of Photography
- Fujio Morita
- Screenplay
- Minoru Inuzuka