Zatoichi's Flashing Sword

Zatoichi's Flashing SwordCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

S
Shintarō Katsu
as Zatoichi
T
Tatsuo Endō
as Boss Yasugoro of Takeya
T
Takashi Etajima
as Seiroku
R
Ryūtarō Gomi
B
Bokuzen Hidari
as Kyubei
J
Jun Katsumura
as Yasugoro yakuza
N
Naoko Kubo
as Okuni
I
Ikuko Mōri
as Yasugoro's sister
M
Mayumi Nagisa
as Oshizu
Y
Yutaka Nakamura
as Mekichi
K
Kô Sugita
T
Teruko Omi
as Mine
R
Ryōsuke Kagawa
as Boss Bunkichi

Crew

K
Kazuo Ikehiro
Director
Y
Yoshinobu Nishioka
Art Direction
Y
Yasukazu Takemura
Director of Photography
S
Sei Ikeno
Original Music Composer
K
Kan Shimozawa
Original Story
M
Masaichi Nagata
Producer
M
Minoru Inuzuka
Screenplay
T
Takashi Taniguchi
Editor
S
Shozaburo Asai
Screenplay

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.