History Film / BlindFury

* AbsurdlySharpBlade : Nick manages to both cut through things that would in reality survive the stroke, but also make precision cuts far too delicate to be possible - such as removing someone's eyebrows without doing any damage to the skin underneath. Both are something that Zatoichi does, the first repeatedly and the second was done in ''Zatoichi Challenged''.

* BlindWeaponmaster: Naturally.

-->'''Annie:''' My glasses!
-->'''Nick:''' (stepping on them) Oops... I think I just found them.

* BookEnd: Near the beginning, Billy accidentally drops his toy dinosaur out the window, which Nick catches. At the end, a saddened Billy throws the dinosaur over the bridge, which Nick catches again.

* BrickJoke: at one point, Nick uses his sword to cut off Cobb's eyebrows and later makes a comment about [[GroinAttack "doing circumcisions"]] if Cobb doesn't tell him where his friend Frank was. Toward the end of the movie when Nick kills Cobb, he slices upwards between Cobbs legs before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbing him in the gut.]]

-->'''[=MacCready=]:''' If you can't handle it, get me somebody who can! Get me Bruce Lee!
-->'''Cobb:''' Bruce Lee is dead.
-->'''[=MacCready=]:''' Then get his brother!

* EightiesHair: Mullets. Mullets everywhere!
* HandicappedBadass: If anything, Nick Parker TookALevelInBadass after he had lost his sight.
* IHaveYourWife: The villain attempts to do this to Nick's friend, but Nick just happened to show up at their house a few minutes before them.

* {{Homage}}: The names of Lyle and Tector share the names of a pair of brothers in ''Film/TheWildBunch''
* HonoraryUncle: Billy eventually starts calling Nick "Uncle Nick".

-->'''Driver:''' What's your problem, are you blind?
-->'''Nick:''' Yeah, what's your excuse?

* ShoutOut: The whole film is one big shout out toward old Franchise/{{Zatoichi}} films, of whom producer Tim Matheson is big fan. Many details are practically ripped - SwordCane, façade of being harmless or using sharpened hearing to win in casino (or find out when the house is cheating).

''Blind Fury'' is a 1989 action 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 ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' film series.

* MegaNekko: Annie. She has big glasses, but a fantastic figure.

* MightyWhitey: Averted. Nick started out started out incompetent with a sword/blind fighting and after twenty years of practicing the art is shown to be as talented as you would expect, but not inherently superior to in any way to the Vietnamese Villagers who saved and trained him.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Nick kills over a dozen {{Mook}}s on his way to the BigBad, the drug dealer and his bodyguard take off before he can reach them, telling [=MacReady=] to find another buyer in the unlikely event he survives. Sensing how angry [=MacReady=] is at their departure, the bodyguard is GenreSavvy enough to keep his gun out and not turn his back on [=MacReady=] and Cobb in case they get any ideas about shooting their former partners out of frustration.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Lyle and Tector, the foolish thug brothers.

* BookEnd: Billy accidentally drops his toy dinosaur out the window, which Nick catches. At the end, a saddened Billy throws the dinosaur over the bridge, which Nick catches again.
* BrattyHalfPint: Billy. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better later on]].

* BrickJoke: at one point, Nick uses his sword to cut off Cobb's eyebrows and later makes a comment about [[GroinAttack "doing circumcisions"]] if Cobb doesn't tell him where his friend Frank was. Toward the end of the movie when Nick kills cob, he slices upwards between Cobbs legs before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbing him in the gut.]]

* LetsGetDangerous

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Apparently the Vietnamese knew all about wielding katanas and cane swords.
** Possibly justified, in that there's [[http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=183 been a Japanese presence]] in Vietnam since the 15th or 16th century.

* BookEnd: Billy accidentally drops his toy dinosaur out the window, which Nick catches. At the end, a saddened Billy throws the dinosaur over the bridge, which Nick catches.

* BlindWithoutEm: Annie. When she gets her glasses crashed, she can't even see her outstretched hands. In an emergency, [[BlindDriving Nick is forced to drive]].

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''Blind Fury'' is a 1989 action 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 ''Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' film series. The film stars Creator/RutgerHauer as Nick Parker, a blind, sword-wielding Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States and befriends Billy, the son of an old friend. Parker decides to help the boy find his father, who has been kidnapped by a major crime syndicate.

* ShoutOut: The whole film is one big shout out toward old Franchise/{{Zatoichi}} films, of whom producer Tim Matheson is big fan. Many details are practically ripped - SwordCane, facade of being harmless or using sharpened hearing to win in casino (or find out when the house is cheating).

* MightyWhitey: Averted. It takes Nick about twenty years of training to get as good as he has with a sword, and he's not demonstrated as being superior in any way to the Vietnamese villagers who trained him.

* MightyWhitey: Averted. It takes Nick over a decade of training to get as good as he has with a sword, and he's not demonstrated as being superior in any way to the Vietnamese villagers who trained him.

** Possibly justified, in that there's [[been a Japanese presence http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=183]] in Vietnam since the 15th or 16th century.