87 minutes
12/24/1965
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.
Shintarō Katsu
as Zatoichi
Mikio Narita
as Tadasu Jumonji
Chizu Hayashi
as Kume
Kaneko Iwasaki
as Otane
Gaku Yamamoto
as Tomonoshin Sagawa
Saburo Date
Tatsuo Endō
as Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
Takuya Fujioka
Kanae Kobayashi
as Widow Tarozaemon
Fujio Suga
as Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Rokkō Toura
as Crippled yakuza
Naomi Fujiyama
as Miki
Taro Marui
as Roppei
Ryo Horikawa
Ryūtarō Gomi
Keiko Koyanagi
Rokkō Toura
Ichirō Yamamoto