![]() ![]() The youngest son, who also wants the money, hires Yojimbo (Toshiro Mifune) to assassinate him, as he is the boss's top enforcer. In the meantime, the boss's eldest son returns from university expecting a large sum of money to be paid to him, but the boss refuses. At a teahouse, he meets Umeno, a former love interest. Tired of wandering, he decides to visit his hometown not noticing until later that the townspeople are living in fear of a local yakuza gang. In the middle of a rainstorm, Ichi overhears a man being killed by a group and then dragged off into the brush. Although Mifune is clearly not playing the same man (his name here is Daisaku Sasa, and his personality and background differ in many key respects), the film's title and some of its content connect him to the character, the Ronin with No Name, and the idea of the two iconic jidaigeki characters confronting each other ( Machibuse, made in the same year, also stars Mifune in a role similar to that of Yojimbo). In this film, actor Toshiro Mifune plays a similar character to Sanjuro, the rōnin (masterless samurai) in Akira Kurosawa's famous film Yojimbo (1961). He was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa and set during the late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). The main character is based on a fictional character, a blind masseur and swordmaster. It is the 20th of a series of films featuring the blind swordsman Zatoichi. ![]() ![]() Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo ( 座頭市と用心棒) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. ![]()
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