Blind Fury

Blind Fury is a 1989 American samuraiaction film written by Charles Robert Carner of Gymkata fame and directed by Phillip Noyce. It is a loosely based, modernized version of Zatoichi Challenged, the 17th film in the Japanese Zatoichi film series. The film stars Rutger Hauer as Nick Parker, a blind, swordwielding Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States and befriends the son of an old friend. Parker decides to help the boy find his father, who has been kidnapped by a major crime syndicate.

Years later, having returned to the United States, he visits old armybuddy Frank Deveraux Terry OQuinn, only to find that Deveraux is missing. Parker then rescues Franks son Billy Brandon Call from an attack in which Billys mother Meg Foster is shot and killed by the henchmen of Franks evil boss, MacCready Noble Willingham. These men apparently want to kidnap Billy in order to use him as leverage over Frank.Parker and Billy, chased by MacCreadys men and lead villain Randall Tex Cobb, make their way to Reno, Nevada, where Deveraux is being forced to make designer drugs, which MacCready plans to sell at his casino. Along the way, the two grow fond of each other after a rough start, and numerous attacks by the bad guys are foiled by Nick and his skills. ........

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