Zatoichi
“His sword made him a hero... his courage made him a legend.”
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Action
Studio
Office Kitano
Language
ja
Status
Released
How Zatoichi performed
Budget
$2.5M
Worldwide Gross
$34.2M
Gross Profit
$31.7M
Return
13.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Zatoichi / Ichi
Takeshi Kitano
Zatoichi / Ichi
Hattori Genosuke
Tadanobu Asano
Hattori Genosuke
Tante Oume
Michiyo Yasuda
Tante Oume
Oshino
Yui Natsukawa
Oshino
Shinkichi
Guadalcanal Taka
Shinkichi
Geisha Seitaro O-Sei Naruto
Daigorô Tachibana
Geisha Seitaro O-Sei Naruto
Geisha Okinu Naruto
Yuko Daike
Geisha Okinu Naruto
Boss Inosuke Ginzo
Ittoku Kishibe
Boss Inosuke Ginzo
Ogi
Saburo Ishikura
Ogi
Pub Owner
Akira Emoto
Pub Owner
Dancing Farmer
Hideboh
Dancing Farmer
Dancing Farmer
Ron II
Dancing Farmer
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