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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert Credits - Full Cast and Crew

Movie
Audience Score
65

Cast

S
Shintarō Katsu
as Zatoichi
M
Mikio Narita
as Tadasu Jumonji
C
Chizu Hayashi
as Kume
K
Kaneko Iwasaki
as Otane
G
Gaku Yamamoto
as Tomonoshin Sagawa
S
Saburo Date
T
Tatsuo Endō
as Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
T
Takuya Fujioka
K
Kanae Kobayashi
as Widow Tarozaemon
F
Fujio Suga
as Injury prone Banyu yakuza
R
Rokkō Toura
as Crippled yakuza
N
Naomi Fujiyama
as Miki
T
Taro Marui
as Roppei
R
Ryo Horikawa
R
Ryūtarō Gomi
K
Keiko Koyanagi
R
Rokkō Toura
I
Ichirō Yamamoto

Crew

K
Kenji Misumi
Director
A
Akira Naitō
Production Design
C
Chikashi Makiura
Director of Photography
K
Kanji Suganuma
Editor
A
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
D
Daisuke Itō
Screenplay
H
Hisashi Okuda
Producer
K
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Collection

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters.