Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
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Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he
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50Go Awazu
Daisuke Ban
Takashi Ebata
Shinzo Hotta
Mayumi Fujii
Eugene Harada
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Tsuneyuki Hasegawa
Keiko Hirade
Taisuke Imai
Kenichiro Ito
Saburo Kadowaki
Masao Ishiguro
Kentaro Kaji
Kenzo Kaneko
Ryoichi Kusanagi
Keizo Kanie
Shigeo Kato
Akira Kubo
Yusuke Koike
Asao Matsumoto
Kozo Matsumoto
Takuzo Kawatani
Ken Ichi Matsuno
Shu Minagawa
Yuuki Natsusaka
Takashi Odajima
Ryoji Okamoto
Hachiro Okamoto
Kakuya Saeki
Sachio Sakai
Makoto Sato
Mihoko Shibata
Tomoyuki Shimura
Yukie Shimura
Kaoru Shinoda
Hiroshi Sugita
Yuka Suzuki
Fumihiko Tachiki
Chigusa Takayama
Motoharu Tamura
Jun Tatara
Ryo Toshikura
Shingo Uchiide
Koichi Ueda
Sakae Umezu
Shoji Oki
Senkichi Omura
Koji Miemachi
Hiroyuki Yamada
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