06 Sep 2003
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Top Billed Cast
高倉健 Isamu Tekada
奈美悦子 Yoko Hayama 
山本麟一 
北林谷栄 
渡辺文雄 
由利徹 
田中春男 
月丘千秋 Chizuko Nogami 
Kyoko Kamimura 
穂積隆信 
近藤宏 
関山耕司 
汐路章 
加藤嘉 
南利明 
志村喬
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