Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Name: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Released: 1970-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.806

About Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) is an action adventure film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film is filed under sword fight, gold, samurai, and jidaigeki.

Shintarō Katsu stars as Zatoichi, Toshirō Mifune as Yojimbo, Ayako Wakao as Umeno, and Osamu Takizawa as Yasuke Eboshiya. Released in January 1970, it runs 115 minutes.

The screenplay is by Kihachi Okamoto and Tetsurō Yoshida. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades, Seven Samurai, and Rashomon make useful companions to Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, all filed under japan. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 85 votes.