Zatoichi in Desperation

You rent a room above a brothel, swept clean of change after a wrong move in the dark. A debt piles up and the daughter’s keeper won’t bargain. A single cane blade keeps the talk polite.

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Shintarō Katsu directed Zatoichi in Desperation in 1972. See Shintarō Katsu's full filmography, where to start with Shintarō Katsu, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shintarō Katsu.

Zatoichi in Desperation was released in 1972 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 92 minutes.