座頭市千両首 [06] Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold 1964 magyar felirat

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay respects at the grave of a man he killed two years earlier. At the grave he reminisces on a fight between the two yakuza gangs (Iioka and Sasagawa from an earlier film) one man ran away and, though Ichi was not taking part in the fight, attacked Ichi. The dead man's sister, Chiyo, overhears Ichi say this to himself. Ichi is invited to take part in a village celebration: after three years of drought and near famine they and seventeen other villages in Usui county have raised 1,000 Ryo with which to pay taxes to the local intendant. Ichi gladly joins in while the locals sing of their hero Chuji- who lives in the hills with a troupe, hiding from the constabulary while protecting the villagers. As they transport the gold to the local intendant (Gundayu) they are ambushed by three samurai (led by Jushiro, who wields a whip) and then by a larger band. Several of the villagers are slain and the rest flee. When the robbers chase the chest of gold to the base of the hill, they find Ichi sitting atop it smoking his pipe. He kills several men when attacked and the rest flee. In the village the local men accost Ichi, blaming him for its theft, before he promises to find the gold. The conversation is overheard by a well dressed woman called Ogin. Taking the backroads to avoid government checkpoints he encounters her again. When she questions his motive for being on the backroad he replies that he could not tell, as he is blind and then asks her why she is on the same road..... Directed by Kazuo Ikehiro Written by Shozaburo Asai Akikazu Ota Kan Shimozawa (story) Produced by Hiroshi Ozawa Starring Shintaro Katsu Cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa Edited by Takashi Taniguchi Music by Ichirō Saitō Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi Shogo Shimada as Chuji Kunisada Machiko Hasegawa as Ogin Tomisaburo Wakayama as Jushiro Tatsuya Ishiguro as Enzo Matasaburo Niwa as Asataro Hikosaburo Kataoka as Iwajiro Mikiko Tsubouchi as Ochiyo