| | | He may be blind but he don't need no dog.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled
Blinded and left to die in Vietnam, Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer) has been missing in action for more than two decades. Finally home, he sets out to find and forgive his old Army buddy, Frank Deveraux (Terrance O'Quinn). Forced to cook up designer drugs for a corrupt casino boss, Deveraux talks, putting his ex-wife and son in danger. Caught in the middle and with henchmen in close pursuit, Nick uses his highly tuned senses to escape in an action-packed cross-country battle.
Editor's Note
BLIND FURY is based on the series of Japanese movies made during the 1960s that featured Zatoichi, a wandering blind swordfighter. Updated and Americanized by scriptwriter Charles Robert Carner and director Phillip Noyce, Zatoichi is now Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer), a soldier blinded in action in the Vietnam War and nursed back to health by Vietnamese villagers. Nick develops an acute sense of hearing and, in spite of his disability, becomes a master swordsman--all during the opening credits. BLIND FURY retains the mixture of humor, violence, and sentiment that characterized the original films. Left in charge of young Billy Devereaux (Brandon Call) after the death of his mother, Nick takes Billy across the United States by bus. However, the pair is menaced by overwhelming numbers of vicious thugs led by Slag (Randall "Tex" Cobb, who plays the bounty hunter in the Coen brothers' RAISING ARIZONA) on the journey. Nick, of course, handles these predicaments with casual skill, luck, good humor, and his trusty hidden samurai sword.
Plot Summary
Caught in the fire of a gangland vendetta against his best friend, a blind Vietnam vet and his buddy's son go on a cross-country trek while being pursued by a barbaric band of homicidal thugs. With the calm of a Zen master, the dead-on blind warrior slices his way out of a succession of funny predicaments with his hidden samurai sword.
| Features | Audio: English, Spanish, Portuguese Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, korean, Thai |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 11/7/2006 |
| Running Time: 86 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 07340 | | UPC: 00043396073401 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Portuguese Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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