Movie Description:
The flip of a coin leads the blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi tohis hometown, aplace he has not visitedin overtwo decades. Despite hisextended hiatus, he finds that several people remember him from his hellcat youth, including a "sister" that he never knew he had and the village`slocal government Superintendant. But things never stayquiet for the masseur for very long. An old face from Ichi`s childhood, Shinbei, has hatched anefarious plot to rob the town of their valuable community quarry. The masseur is caught in the unenvialbe position of mediating the conflict between hisformer pal and the home of his youth, with neither side willing to budge. Can Ichi, the champion of the weak and oppressed, do the right thing, even ifit pits him against his childhood chum?