New Tale of Zatoichi

New Tale of Zatoichi Full Cast & Crew

Movie

Cast

S
Shintarō Katsu
as Zatoichi
M
Mikiko Tsubouchi
as Yayoi
S
Seizaburō Kawazu
as Banno
F
Fujio Suga
as Yasuhiko
M
Mieko Kondō
as Inn keeper's wife
T
Tatsuo Endō
as Inn keeper
G
Gen Kimura
as Yakuza member with mark on his face
C
Chitose Maki
as Tame's wife
K
Kanae Kobayashi
as Old lady going deaf
Y
Yutaka Nakamura
as Yasuhiko's brother
S
Shōsaku Sugiyama
as Tengu Ronin that gets a massage
S
Saburo Date
as Anzo
I
Ichirō Takakura
as Kingo Kanda
S
Shōzō Nanbu
as Jinpachiro Kanda
T
Toyoko Takechi
as Oshige

Crew

T
Tokuzō Tanaka
Director
H
Hiroshi Yamada
Editor
C
Chikashi Makiura
Director of Photography
A
Akira Ifukube
Original Music Composer
K
Kikuo Umebayashi
Screenplay
M
Minoru Inuzuka
Screenplay
K
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story
S
Seiichi Ōta
Art Direction
I
Ikuo Kubodera
Producer

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.