Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Toshirō Mifune
Sassa the yojimbo
Shintarō Katsu
Zatoichi
Ayako Wakao
Umeno
Osamu Takizawa
Yasuke Eboshiya
Masakane Yonekura
Boss Masagoro
Shin Kishida
Kuzuryu
Kanjūrō Arashi
Hyoroku
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Sanaemon Goto
Shigeru Kōyama
Jinzaburo Wakiya
Minoru Terada
Yogo
Kihachi Okamoto
Director
Kan Shimozawa
Writer
Tetsurō Yoshida
Writer
Akira Ifukube
Composer
Kazuo Miyagawa
Cinematographer
Toshio Taniguchi
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 15, 1970
Original Name座頭市と用心棒
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 55m
Budget$116
Genres
Wiki.
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (座頭市と用心棒) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Kihachi Okamoto.It is the 20th of a series of films featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi. The main character is based on a fictional character, a blind masseur and swordmaster. He was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa and set during the late Edo period (1830s and 1840s).
In this film, actor Toshiro Mifune plays a similar character to Sanjuro, the rōnin (masterless samurai) in Akira Kurosawa's famous film Yojimbo (1961). Although Mifune is clearly not playing the same man (his name here is Daisaku Sasa, and his personality and background differ in many key respects), the film's title and some of its content connect him to the character, the Ronin with No Name, and the idea of the two iconic jidaigeki characters confronting each other (Machibuse, made in the same year, also stars Mifune in a role similar to that of Yojimbo).