Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Shintarō Katsu
Shigeru Amachi
Jun Hamamura
Gen Kimura
Kanae Kobayashi
Kōichi Mizuhara
Mayumi Ogawa
Kei Satō
Michi Azuma
Saburo Date
Jun Fujikawa
Yukio Horikita
Sumao Ishihara
Yukiko Komura
Hideo Kuroki
Masanori Machida
Ikkei Tamaki
Kazuko Taniguchi
Mitsuko Yoshikawa