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Yoshi Hattori (screenplay)
Kan Shimosawa (story)
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15 April 1974 (USA) more
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Shintarô Katsu | ... | Zatôichi / Blind Man Ichi | |
| Yukiyo Toake | ... | Miyo | |
| Eiji Okada | ... | Shinbei of Hitachiya | |
| Kei Satô | ... | Magistrate | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | ... | Superintendant Shobei | |
| Shirô Kishibe | ... | Ruffian | |
| Rie Yokoyama | ... | Yuri / Lily | |
| Tatsuo Endo | ... | Boss Iwagoro (as Tatsuo Endô) | |
| Takashi Shimura | ... | Sakubei | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Naoyuki Asahina | |||
| Tamoisu Fujiharu | |||
| Ryuuji Fukui | |||
| Takamori Gen | |||
| Yuuji Hamada | |||
| Kuniko Ishii | ... | Virgin farmgirl | |
| Hiroshi Kanda | |||
| Masayoshi Kikuno | |||
| Goro Kumon | |||
| Nobue Matsuoka | |||
| Yuzo Miyashita | |||
| Tokio Oki | |||
| Yuko Ota | |||
| Osamu Sakai | ... | Gen | |
| Shoroku Shimada | |||
| Teiko Takeda | |||
| Yûsaku Terajima | ... | Yahei | |
| Saburo Ukida | |||
| Mitsuo Watanabe | |||
| Takeshi Yabuchi | |||
| Satoko Yamamura | |||
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Also Known As:
A New Tale of Zatoichi: Blood Festival of Kasama (informal English title)
The Blind Swordsman's Conspiracy
Zatôichi 25 (Japan) (informal title)
Zatoichi at the Blood Fest (UK) (video title)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
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88 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Not only the last Zatôichi film produced by Toho Company Ltd., but also the last of the "old school" Zatôichi films. more
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Follows Zatôichi rôyaburi (1967) more
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After a 23 year absence, Zatoichi returns to his home town to find that few remember him. But in the end the village residents will have much to remember him by.
Of course Zatoichi is in a sentimental mood. There is a funny scene where Zato mistakenly thinks that the town has set up a big banquet in his honor and he frets over how to greet his guests and thank them. There is a touching scene where Zato comes across a Jizo (Buddha) statue along side a road where he used to play as a child. Jizo is missing his stone head, so Zatoichi gets on hands and knees to find the missing head. In the end he finds the head and replaces it on Jizo's shoulders. Zato visits the grave of his 'aunti' who breast fed him and offers sake (taking a nip himself :) ).
The second half of the film is fast paced and has an interesting story. It's a story of greed and the story is being sown by Zatoichi's childhood friend, who has returned to the village at the same time as Zatoichi. Their confrontation is predictable, but Zatoichi takes out a host of yakuza to eventually confront his childhood friend. Overall, it's a compelling story and has a lot of good action.
So this film marks the 25th film in a period of 12 years. It's interesting that the series pauses at this point. The next film (and last) will be released in 1989. I would rank Zatoichi Conspiracy higher than several of the earlier films in the series, but the Japanese public must have had enough by this point. Good work Katsu!