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You can stream Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

Toshirō Mifune brings a lethal, cynical magnetism to the screen as a wandering ronin caught in a bloody family feud. This collision of legends pairs a blind swordsman's precision with a rogue bodyguard's razor-sharp wit.