Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.
Director:
Kihachi Okamoto
Writers:
Tetsurō Yoshida, Kihachi Okamoto.
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Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi |
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Toshirō Mifune as Yojimbo/Sasa |
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Ayako Wakao as Umeno |
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Osamu Takizawa as Yasuke Eboshiya |
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Masakane Yonekura as Boss Masagoro |
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Shin Kishida as Kuzuryu |
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Kanjūrō Arashi as Hyoroku |
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Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Sanaemon Goto |
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Shigeru Kōyama as Jinzaburo Wakiya |
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Hideo Sunazuka as |
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Daigo Kusano as |
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Fujio Tokita as |
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Gen Kimura as |
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Hiroshi Tanaka as |
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Hiroto Kimura as |
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Ryutaro Itsumi as |
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Yūji Hamada as |
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Kazu Echikawa as |
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Gen Kuroki as |
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Junshiro Araseki as |
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Yoko Netsuda as |
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Minori Terada as |
| Production | Shintarō Katsu | Producer |
| Editing | Toshio Taniguchi | Editor |
| Art | Yoshinobu Nishioka | Art Direction |
| Sound | Akira Ifukube | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Kihachi Okamoto | Director |
| Camera | Kazuo Miyagawa | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Tetsurō Yoshida | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kan Shimozawa | Original Story |
| Writing | Kihachi Okamoto | Screenplay |
| Directing | Mitsuko Matsuda | Continuity |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Original Concept |
