Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Director:
Tokuzō Tanaka
Writer:
Hajime Takaiwa
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Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi |
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Shigeru Amachi as Genpachiro Kurobe |
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Jun Hamamura as Blind Biwa Priest |
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Gen Kimura as Tamekichi |
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Kanae Kobayashi as Tamekichi's mother |
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Kōichi Mizuhara as Joshuya |
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Mayumi Ogawa as Ocho / Oshino |
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Kei Satō as Boss Gonzo |
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Michi Azuma as Oharu |
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Saburo Date as Hanji |
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Jun Fujikawa as Jun Fujikawa |
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Yukio Horikita as Toramatsu |
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Sumao Ishihara as |
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Yukiko Komura as Oro |
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Hideo Kuroki as Yakuza of Takasaki |
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Masanori Machida as Taichi |
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Ikkei Tamaki as Kinbei |
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Kazuko Taniguchi as Kamegoro's wife |
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Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Mother |
| Directing | Tokuzō Tanaka | Director |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Production Design |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Kanji Suganuma | Editor |
| Production | Ikuo Kubodera | Producer |
| Writing | Hajime Takaiwa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kan Shimozawa | Original Story |
