Directed by Shintarô Katsu Written by Tatsumi Ichiyama   Shintarô Katsu   Tsutomu Nakamura   Kyôhei Nakaoka   Kan Shimozawa   Cast Shintarô Katsu ... Zatôichi / Ichi, a zatô in the Tôdô-za Kanako Higuchi ... Boss Han Bosatsu Takanori Jinnai ... Inspector Hanshu Ryûtarô Gan ... Boss Goemon (as Takehiro Okumura) Yûya Uchida ... Boss Akabei Toyomi Kusano ... Ume Tsurutarô Kataoka ... Tsuru Miho Nakayama   Ken Ogata ... Rônin / Masterless samurai Norihei Miki ... Zatoichi's friend Naonori Aihara   Ryo Akashi   Buntaro Aoyanaki   Yosuke Ara   Gô Awazu ... Kame Daisuke Ban   Hisae Doi   Takashi Ebata   Mayumi Fuji   Noboru Fujita   Seiji Fujita   Satoru Fukasaku   Masako Fukuhara   Benzo Fukuyama   Shinji Funawatari   Takeyuki Funawatari   Masato Goto   Tadashi Hagiwara   Akemi Hanawa   Eugene Harada   Itsuo Harada   Hiroshi Hasegawa   Tsuneyuki Hasegawa   Yukihiko Hatake   Miyako Hattori   Keiko Hirade   Akemi Hirano   Akira Hoshino   Mutsuko Hoshino   Shinzô Hotta ... (as Shinzo Hotta) Masaru Ibuki   Kenzo Ihara   Shogo Ikegami   Riki Ikenaga   Mika Iketani   Taisuke Imai   Junko Ishida   Masao Ishiguro   Daisuke Ito   Kenichiro Ito   Kuji Ito   Setsuo Iwai   Sayuri Iwasaki   Saburô Kadowaki   Hiroshi Kai   Fumihiro Kaijyo   Kentarô Kaji   Yoriko Kajikawa   Makoto Kanegata   Kenzô Kaneko   Keizô Kanie   Koichi Kase   Mie Kataoka   Shuji Kato   Osamu Katô   Shigeo Katô   Yukio Katô   Koji Kawahara   Atsushi Kawashita   Takuzô Kawatani   Kiyosumi Kida   Tsuyoshi Kikuchi   Koichi Kikukawa   Kazumori Kimura   Kumi Kimura   Haruichi Kitami   Satomi Kitamira   Tomoyuki Kizawa   Hiroyuki Kobayashi   Minamura Koda   Yûsuke Koike   Eiji Koshutake   Akira Kubo   Toshizô Kuon   Kiiko Kurokawa   Ryôichi Kusanagi   Mitsuo Makishima   Satoshi Manabe   Takeyuki Masujima   Shin Matsukawa   Asao Matsumoto   Kozo Matsumoto   Kazuko Matsumura   Shinobu Matsunaga   Ken'ichi Matsuno   Kôji Miemachi   Ryo Mihara   Kyoko Mimasa   Sho Mimune   Shû Minagawa   Yoshitada Mitsui   Shotaro Miyagawa   Kôta Mizumori   Fumikazu Morihashi   Takami Morioka   Sachiko Moriyuki   Seishichi Mukae   Yûki Nagata   Daisuke Naito   Masataka Nakamura   Kyôko Nakano   Yayoi Nariyama   Kanako Natsukawa   Yuuki Natsusaka   Kazumasu Negishi   Takeo Niimi   Ninryu   Yoshiko Nishi   Kazuya Nomura   Yû Numazaki   Kyoko Nunomura   Takashi Odajima   Kyôko Oguma   Kumiko Ohta ... (as Kumiko Ota) Ryôji Okamoto   Tatsuya Okamoto   Kazu Okubo   Tadashi Okumura   Miyuki Omiya   Yoshiyuki Oniwa   Yukio Onuki   Nobu Osako   Mitsuyuki Oshima   Yoshio Otake   Terukazu Ryu   Kakuya Saeki   Koji Sai   Yoshio Saito   Sachio Sakai   Bontaro Sakata   Masakatsu Sakata   Fumio Sasaki   Manami Sase   Miyo Satsukime   Makoto Satô   Yûji Sawayama   Atsushi Seki   Hiroyuki Sekimizu   Kazuyuki Senwatari   Mihoko Shibata   Naoto Shigemizu   Shinichi Shimizu   Tomoyuki Shimura   Yukie Shimura   Nanako Shindo   Kaoru Shinoda   Yoshito Shiraishi   Mako Shirokuma   Kyoko Sotokawa   Emiko Suga   Takae Sugano   Hiroshi Sugita   Akio Suzuki   Chiaki Suzuki   Kazuya Suzuki   Keiko Suzuki   Yuka Suzuki   Fumihiko Tachiki   Kimiko Tajima   Reiko Takahashi   Seigo Takahashi   Yutaka Takahashi   Yoshiyuki Takaichi   Kohei Takano   Chigusa Takayama   Kasumi Takazawa   Kyomi Takazawa   Shinya Takeda   Kazuhiro Taketoshi   Yasushi Takeuchi   Ryunosuke Takigawa   Masaki Tamura   Motoharu Tamura   Ryoji Tanaka   Isao Tanitsu   Hirokazu Tanizaki   Jun Tatara ... Genta Tamoko Tawada   Erika Togo   Noriko Tokihiro   Shogo Tomomori   Mitsuo Tone   Ryo Toshikura   Takashi Totsuka   Banjiro Tsuji   Noriko Tsukamoto   Yuko Tsukamoto   Shingo Uchiide   Kôichi Ueda   Sakae Umezu   Hideyuki Washigashita   Masaroku Watanabe   Teruo Watanabe   Hiroyuki Yamada   Toshimi Yamaguchi   Kinji Yamamine   Joe Yamanaka ... Sukezaemon Kuroma Keiko Yamane   Wataru Yamane   Hana Yamashina   Mitsuru Yamazaki   Isao Yasuda   Hideomi Yasukawauchi   Kenji Yasunaga   Rikiya Yasuoka ... Yôjinbô / Bodyguard Osamu Yayama   Saburo Yoko   Naritoshi Yokoo   Hiroshi Yonezawa   Toru Yoshikawa   Roku Yoshinaka   Shôji Ôki   Senkichi Ômura   Yutaka Ôyama   Produced by Shintarô Katsu   Masanori Sanada   Kiyoshi Tsukamoto   Original Music by Edison

Additional Info Premiere: February 04, 1989 DVD Release: February 24, 2004 Country: Distributor: Tokyo Shock Websites: Alternate Titles Zatôichi 26: Darkness Is His Ally Zatôichi: The Blind Swordsman Production Companies Katsu Production Distributors Media Blasters   (2004) (USA) (DVD) Tokyo Shock   (2004) (USA) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 7.1 / 10 Our Rating 7.1 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 6.7 / 10 Female Users 5.8 / 10 Site Ranking #7,630 / 20,725 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 4 total ratings Almost Perfect 1 total rating Average 1 total rating Site Ranking #7,626 The Hitchhiker: Season 4 (1987) #7,627 The Hitchhiker: Season 3 (1985) #7,628 Damon's Revenge (2022) #7,629 The Hitchhiker: Season 1 (1983) #7,630 Zatôichi (1989) #7,631 The Sandman (2017) #7,632 Genesis (1998) #7,633 Massacre On Aisle 12 (2016) #7,634 The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson (2019)