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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

座頭市と用心棒

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Synopsis

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.

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Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi

Toshirō Mifune

Yojimbo/Sasa

Ayako Wakao

Umeno

Osamu Takizawa

Yasuke Eboshiya

Masakane Yonekura

Boss Masagoro

Shin Kishida

Kuzuryu

Kanjūrō Arashi

Hyoroku

Toshiyuki Hosokawa

Sanaemon Goto

Shigeru Kōyama

Jinzaburo Wakiya

Hideo Sunazuka

Daigo Kusano

Fujio Tokita

Gen Kimura

Hiroshi Tanaka

Hiroto Kimura

Ryutaro Itsumi

Yūji Hamada

Kazu Echikawa

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Financials & Box Office Performance

Released

Production Budget

$116

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Key Information & Fast Facts

Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Screenplay & Story: Kihachi Okamoto, Tetsurō Yoshida
Original Score: Akira Ifukube
Original Title: 座頭市と用心棒
Country of Origin: Japan
Spoken Languages: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 55m
Production Budget: $116
Production Studios: Katsu Production, Daiei Film

Creative Leadership & Key Crew

Director

Kihachi Okamoto

Screenplay & Story

Kihachi Okamoto, Tetsurō Yoshida, Kan Shimozawa, Akira Kurosawa

Original Score & Music

Akira Ifukube

Director of Photography

Kazuo Miyagawa

Film Editing

Toshio Taniguchi

Producers

Shintarō Katsu

Department Leadership Roster

Kihachi Okamoto

Director

Shintarō Katsu

Producer

Toshio Taniguchi

Editor

Akira Ifukube

Original Music Composer

Kazuo Miyagawa

Director of Photography

Kihachi Okamoto

Screenplay

Tetsurō Yoshida

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