Blind Fury is a 1989 samurai/action film written by Charles Robert Carner 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, sword-wielding 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. Rutger Hauer plays Nick Parker, an American soldier who is blinded while serving in the Vietnam War. Parker is... blinded by a mortar explosion, but is soon after rescued by local villagers, who help him recover his health . As part of his recovery, he is taught to be an expert swordsman by the local master. Years later, having returned to the United States, he visits old army-buddy Frank Deveraux , only to find that Deveraux is missing. Parker then rescues Frank's son Billy from an attack in which Billy's mother is shot and killed by the henchmen of Frank's evil boss, MaCready .
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| Release date: | March 16, 1990 |
| Directed by: | Phillip Noyce |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 86 Minutes |
| Producer: | Daniel Grodnik |
| Music by: | J. Peter Robinson |
| Cinematography: | Don Burgess |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action, Comedy, Adventure |