Game.
Even.
Odd.
I won.
This is my house! Move! Go away!
Are you stiII eating?
I toId you to cIean the house!
LittIe Seitaro, the master wouId Iike to see you.
You, cIean up that mess!
Come with me, Seitaro.
How adorabIe you are!
From now on, you'II be my boy.
As Iong as you do as I say. . .
You and your sister can stay here.
WouId that make you happy?
I'II buy you beautifuI kimonos.
What are you doing?
Stay away from the master's room!
No!
Sir.. .
don t you want to spend time with me?
Osei. . .
it's time to practice.
Sister. ..
what's wrong?
It s nothing.
Are you aIright?
Aunt, do you have an umbreIIa?
Over there.
I'II go see what's happening in town.
Thanks.
Gramps, where's Pops today?
He has other business to tend to.
That Iazy bastard?
Why do you work in this dump? No famiIy to care for you?
That's right.
He took me off the streets and gave me a job.
He was good to me.
I'm thankfuI for aII he did.
Better to beg than work in this dump!
Go out and sit on a straw mat and you'II make more!
5 and 1, even.
New game.
Objections?
What are you bastards doing here?
Pay up, if you want to gambIe.
Watch it. ..
This was our turf first.
You making a fuss, bastard?
You Iooking for troubIe?
Ginzo wants a showdown.
Stay back.
Wow!
Wait. . .
It's over.
That masseur. ..
CouId he be Zatoichi?
And those geishas. . .
They must be from the Naruto famiIy.
The Naruto heist. . .
How Iong ago was that?
10 years ago.
I see.
If the chiIdren survived, they wouId be of age by now.
I wonder. . .
That bodyguard. ..
Is he capabIe of defeating Zatoichi?
Where's Ogi?
Boss Ginzo himseIf!
How nice of you to come!
This way, pIease.
I hear your business is doing weII.
I asked you never to come here.
Don't worry.
Funahachi is history.
We run the show now.
OnIy thing Ieft to do is fiII our pockets.
CIean this pIace up!
Big news!
They wiped out the Funahachi gang.
The Ginzo gang and their bodyguard. . .
They sIayed every singIe one of them.
ReaIIy, that Ginzo hired one heII of a bodyguard!
Masseur, better stay away from town.
Shinkichi, is the bodyguard reaIIy that strong?
He's incredibIe.
If he and I fought at night, who wouId be stronger?
If it's pitch bIack. . .
Neither one of you wouId see anything.
You wouId probabIy be stronger.
What s so funny?
Let's see what you got.
I'II train you. Come on!
I'II teach you the art of combat.
Concentrate.
Let's begin.
Attack from any direction.
Not aII at the same time!
Let's try again.
For safety s sake, Iet s pIan the moves.
Listen up.
First, me. . .
Like this. ..
You strike here.
Then.. .
You!
And then, you.
Good.
Let s give it a try.
See?
See what you can do?
Now, faster.
Good. That's it.
Not Iike that!
That hurts, idiots!
Your Iessons are over!
AsshoIes!
Stupid boy! Go home.
You fooI. Go on home.
I II have a bath.
Me, too.
No! Men first.
I am a man!
Masseur. ..
I'm thinking of paying Ogi another visit.
I have to know if Ogi was one of the bandits.
The water's not hot enough. Heat it up!
Don't start! Bad enough, taking a bath in broad dayIight!
Good-for-nothing!
It's no good coId. PIease, heat it up.
That's what I'm doing!
I have to say it's incredibIe.
You reaIIy Iook Iike a woman!
Does make-up make men beautifuI?
It doesn't work on everyone.
It depends on the face!
WeIcome.
We wouId Iike to apoIogize to Mr. Ogi.
He hired us to perform, and we were very rude to him.
ReaIIy?
CouId you send him our apoIogies?
Have a seat.
Ogi can t hoId his Iiquor. He probabIy forgot aIready.
Don't worry.
I hope you're right.
You two haven t been around much IateIy.
Where have you been staying?
Mrs Oume's pIace.
Is the masseur with you?
You aIright, Gramps?
Throw that out.
Have a drink.
Thank you.
Ogi teamed up with Ginzo. They must be up to something.
But their business doesn t invoIve you.
WouId you Iike another?
Not yet.
I'II go to Ogi's now. It wiII take a whiIe.
Wait here, Iadies.
Ogi says he s not angry at aII.
He Iikes you two and wants to see you both now.
Thank you very much.
And thanks for the sake.
Good Iuck.
Where is everyone?
They aII went into town.
What are you doing?
Are you crazy?
I want to be beautifuI Iike Osei.
What a shock!
What's the racket?
Back again, stupid boy?
Where s the masseur?
Who are you?
We want the masseur.
He's not here.
You can't hide him.
But he's not here.
Then we II smoke him out.
Burn it down!
Stop!
Aunt Oume! There s troubIe!
The house is on fire! Wake up!
There's troubIe!
Let's go!
Hurry!
Who are those men?
Shinkichi!
Damn!
She's a very beautifuI woman.
Woman?
Things aren't aIways what they seem, Inosuke.
Don't caII me by my oId name.
You never know who might be Iistening.
My name is Ginzo now.
What are you Iooking at?
Keep dancing!
We know everything.
You re the Naruto chiIdren.
Masseur!
Ladies, Ieave now!
Get the bodyguard.
Inosuke, where are you going?
- Where s the bodyguard? - At home.
Get him now!
Give me that sword!
Child turtle on its back. . .
Grandchild turtle on child turtle's back. . .
Great grandchild turtle on grandchild turtle's back. . .
If mother turtle falls,
child, grandchild and great grandchild turtles fall, too. . .
AII the bandits are dead.
Except the Kuchinawa boss.
He must be pretty oId by now.
He II be dead soon enough.
Don't think of him. Better to think of your future.
You couId settIe down here.
You couId become a man again.
This way suits me just fine.
Where did the masseur go off to?
He s off wandering somewhere.
But the festivaI begins today.
You found me out.
How did you know?
The stench.
Disguise yourseIf aII you want.. .
Your rotten stench wiII never go away.
Stop bIabbering, you bIind bat!
I m proud to Iet it be known that I'm the Kuchinawa boss.
A bIind man Iike you. . .
You won't sIay me easiIy!
What the heII?
You re not bIind?
Not at aII.
Why do you act bIind?
Because the bIind. . .
They sense peopIe better.
I knew you couId see!
I knew the first time you came here.
You're the one who kiIIed my men.
Torakichi, too?
You kiIIed the tavern owner?
He was just a street kid.
I took him in years ago.
I showed him the tricks of the trade so he couId become my successor.
My whoIe gang destroyed. ..
By a wandering masseur Iike you!
How did you know I was the reaI Kuchinawa boss?
When you knocked down my cane. . .
To check out the sword.
You're the worst crook of aII.
Is that so?
Not much more I can do.
The time has come for me to retire.
But I ve Iived a fuII Iife.
I have no regrets.
Go on. KiII me!
Death is too good for you.
Finish your Iife as a bIind man!
Even with my eyes wide open. . .
l can't see a thing!
Executive Producer: Chieko SAITO
Based on a Short Story by Kan SHIMOZAWA
Producers: Masayuki MORI and Tsunehisa SAITO
Co-Producers: Masanori SANADA and Takio YOSHIDA
Music: Keiichi SUZUKI
Tap Dance Choreography: THE STRIPES
Costume Supervisor: Yohji YAMAMOTO
Zatoichi BEAT Takeshi
Hattori Tadanobu ASANO
Aunt Oume Michiyo OGUSU
Hattori's Wife Yui NATSUKAWA
Shinkichi GUADALCANAL Taka
Geisha Osei Daigoro TACHIBANA
Geisha Okinu Yuko DAIKE
Ginzo Ittoku KISHIBE
Ogi Saburo ISHIKURA
Pops, Tavern Owner Akira EMOTO
Cinematographer: Katsumi YANAGIJIMA
Lighting Designer: Hitoshi TAKAYA
Production Designer: Norihiro ISODA
Costume Designer: Kazuko KUROSAWA
Sound Designer: Senji HORIUCHI
Written, Directed and Edited by Takeshi KITANO
SubtitIes: Jeanette AMANO & Richard LORMAND