Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

International Title

Japanese Title

新座頭市: 破れ！唐人剣
[Shin Zatoichi: Yabure! Tojinken]

Production: Katsu Productions / Daiei
Distributor: Dainichi-Eihai (Toho Owned)	Japan: 1971
	Time: 94 minutes

Initial US Title

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

US Distributor: AnimEigo (2004)	Time: 94 minutes
Alternate Movie Titles:
New Zatoichi: Break! Tojinken [Literal translation] Zatoichi Meets His Equal [Unused International Title] The Legend of Zatoichi: Zatoichi Against the One-Armed Swordsman [French]
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Staff
Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda Writing credits Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Takayuki Yamada, Kan Shimosawa Produced by Shintaro Katsu, Yoshinobu Nishioka, Ming Huang Music by Isao Tomita Cinematography by Chishi Makiura, Fujiro Morita Film Editing by Toshio Taniguchi Production Design by Yoshinobu Nishioka Assistant Director Akikazu Ota, Teng Hung Hsu
Cast
Zatoichi Shintaro Katsu Wang Kong, One-Armed Swordsman Yu Wang Sen Watako Hamaki Yone Michie Terada Kakuzen Koji Nanbara Shamo Yi Chang Henoichi Shinsuke Minami Toubei Boss Toru Abe Kame Mitsuo Totsuka Shige Kanae Kobayashi Yumay Ling Wang Yakuza Kyoichi Sato, Jun Katsumura Stooge Shiro Ito - Katsutoshi Akiyama - Yutaro Ban - Shoji Mori - Junjiro Niida - Hitoshi Omae - Takamaru Sasaki - Jun Satomi - Yuji Hamada - Tokue Hanazawa - Seishiro Hara - Tsutomu Hashimoto - Tadashi Iwata - Masato Kagawa - Goro Kumon - Gen Kuroki - Yuzou Kusakawa - Noritake Matsuda - Ichiro Yamamoto - Osamu Okawa - Jun Osugi
Monster Appearances	Aliens, SDF, Misc
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DVDs and Blu-Ray

Region 1 Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman AnimEigo (2004)
Region 2 New Zatoichi: Break! Tojinken Toho (2003)
Region 4 Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman Madman (2005)
Blu-Ray Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman Set Criterion (2013)

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