Daiei Motion Pictures produced a movie, "Zatoichi to Yojinbo"(Zatoichi and a Bodyguard, directed by Kihachi OKAMOTO in 1970) in which Shintaro KATSU played the lead and Toshiro MIFUNE appeared in it as a bodyguard dressed in a similar way as he was in "Yojinbo."
勝新太郎主演の大映映画に『座頭市と用心棒』（1970年岡本喜八監督）があり、三船敏郎が同じような衣装で用心棒として登場する。