
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally(1989)
movie - first aired/released 1989-02-04 - 116 min - audience 6.5
Action, Drama, Adventure
Directed by Shintarō Katsu
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Cast
Shintarō KatsuZatoichi
Kanako HiguchiBoss Han Bosatsu
Takanori JinnaiInspector Hanshu- Ryûtarô GanBoss Goemon
Yuya UchidaBoss Akabei- Toyomi KusanoUme
Tsurutaro KataokaTsuru
Miho Nakayama
Ken OgataRonin
Norihei MikiZatôichi's Friend
Joe YamanakaKuruma Sukezaemon
Rikiya Yasuoka
Gō Awazu
Daisuke Ban
Takashi Ebata
Shinzō Hotta- Mayumi Fujii
- Eugene Harada
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- Hiroshi Hasegawa
- Tsuneyuki Hasegawa
- Keiko Hirade
- Taisuke Imai
- Kenichiro Ito
- Saburô Kadowaki
- Masao Ishiguro
- Kentarô Kaji
- Kenzo Kaneko
Ryoichi Kusanagi
Keizo Kanie
Shigeo Katō
Akira Kubo- Yûsuke Koike
- Asao Matsumoto
- Kozo Matsumoto
Takuzō Kawatani- Ken'ichi Matsuno
- Shū Minagawa
- Yuuki Natsusaka
- Takashi Odajima
- Ryôji Okamoto
- Hachiro Okamoto
- Kakuya Saeki
Sachio Sakai
Makoto Satō
Mihoko Shibata
Tomoyuki Shimura- Yukie Shimura
Kaoru Shinoda- Hiroshi Sugita
- Yuka Suzuki
Fumihiko Tachiki
Chigusa Takayama- Motoharu Tamura
Jun Tatara- Ryo Toshikura
- Shingo Uchiide
Koichi Ueda
Sakae Umezu- Shōji Ōki
Senkichi Ōmura- Koji Miemachi
- Hiroyuki Yamada
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