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Zatoichi Challenged

7 average rating
★★★★★
7
Japanese / 87 MIN. / 1967

The Genres

The Synopsis

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

The Cast

Shintarō KatsuJūshirō KonoeMiwa TakadaYukiji AsaokaMikiko TsubouchiMie NakaoTakao ItōAsao KoikeMidori IsomuraTatsuo MatsumuraEitarō OzawaJōtarō SenbaKōjirō KusanagiKenzō TabuOsami NabeAkihisa TodaKōji FujiyamaKōichi MizuharaIkuko MōriShōsaku SugiyamaYūsaku TerashimaShintarō NanjōKōichi ItōIkkei TamakiYukio HorikitaTokio OkiShin'ya SaitôKanae Kobayashi

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