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Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

Directed by Tokuzô Tanaka

Overview

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to “Taichi”. Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that “Taichi” was the man’s young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

Length 83 minutes

Actors

Shintarō Katsu | Shigeru Amachi | Jun Hamamura | Gen Kimura | Kanae Kobayashi | Kôichi Mizuhara | Mayumi Ogawa | Kei Satō | Michie Azuma | Saburo Date | Jun Fujikawa | Yukio Horikita | Sumao Ishihara | Yukiko Komura | Hideo Kuroki | Masanori Machida | Ikkei Tamaki | Kazuko Taniguchi | Mitsuko Yoshikawa