Dec 24, 1965
87 min
Full-HD

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.

Category

Adventure Action Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Daiei Film

Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi

Mikio Narita

Tadasu Jumonji

Kaneko Iwasaki

Otane

Gaku Yamamoto

Tomonoshin Sagawa

Saburo Date

Tatsuo Endō

Yakuza boss of Ejimaya

Takuya Fujioka

Ryo Horikawa

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