With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.
Genres:
Shintarō Katsu as Zatoichi
Toshirō Mifune as Yojimbo/Sasa
Ayako Wakao as Umeno
Osamu Takizawa as Yasuke Eboshiya
Masakane Yonekura as Boss Masagoro
Shin Kishida as Kuzuryu
Kanjūrō Arashi as Hyoroku
Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Sanaemon Goto
Shigeru Kōyama as Jinzaburo Wakiya
Hideo Sunazuka as
Daigo Kusano as
Fujio Tokita as
Gen Kimura as
Hiroshi Tanaka as
Hiroto Kimura as
Ryutaro Itsumi as
Yūji Hamada as
Kazu Echikawa as
Gen Kuroki as
Junshiro Araseki as
Yoko Netsuda as
Minori Terada as
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