Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo | 座頭市と用心棒
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo座頭市と用心棒
Overview
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Toshirō Mifune
Ayako Wakao
Osamu Takizawa
Masakane Yonekura
Shin Kishida
Kanjūrō Arashi
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Shigeru Kōyama
Hideo Sunazuka
Daigo Kusano
Fujio Tokita
Gen Kimura
Hiroshi Tanaka
Hiroto Kimura
Ryutaro Itsumi
Yūji Hamada
Kazu Echikawa
Gen Kuroki
Junshiro Araseki
Yoko Netsuda
Minori Terada
Crew
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Toshio Taniguchi
Akira Ifukube
Shintarō Katsu
Kihachi Okamoto
Kazuo Miyagawa
Kan Shimozawa