Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman and the Chess Expert

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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman and the Chess Expert ★★ 1965

Zatoichi, the blind gambler and former samurai, befriends a master chess player and gets involved with Japanese gangsters. In Japanese with English subtitles. 87m/C VHS, DVD . JP Shintaro Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi, Kaneko Iwasaki, Gaku Yamamoto; D: Kenji Misumi; W: Daisuke Ito; C: Chishi Makiura; M: Akira Ifukube.

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