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Shôzaburô Asai. Writer: Adventures of Zatoichi. Shôzaburô Asai is known for Adventures of Zatoichi (1964), Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964) and Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964).
- Producer, Writer, Production Designer
- Shôzaburô Asai
Adventures of Zatoichi. The blind swordsman wanders into a town to celebrate the New Year. There, he befriends a young woman whose father has gone missing; as he tries to help her find him, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption and a series of tragic twists of fate.
- Zatoichi
Shozaburo Asai. Screenplay. Full Cast & Crew. Social. Reviews. Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared.
Shozaburo Asai is known as an Screenplay, Producer, Writer, and Script. Some of his work includes Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold, Zatoichi's Flashing Sword, Adventures of Zatoichi, Zatoichi and the Doomed Man, Haunted Castle, Island of Horrors, Young Boss: Prison Release, and Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold: Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro. With Shintarô Katsu, Shôgo Shimada, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Machiko Hasegawa. Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Kazuo Ikehiro
- 1964-03-14
Returning director Kimiyoshi Yasuda and screenwriter Shozaburo Asai masterfully weave together a variety of narrative threads and tonal registers, all while playfully tweaking the conventions and motifs of the series.
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the...
