Fight Zatoichi Fight benefits from a particularly strong and emotional Shintaro Katsu performance. In this film he takes charge of an infant whose mother is killed by yakuza meaning to kill Zatoichi. He also joins up with a fallen woman, and this dysfunctional family attempts to return the child to its father--who doesn't want his offspring back. The relationship that Zatoichi develops with the unwanted child is quite moving, and the final battle scene takes on added poignance after the blind masseur is forced to leave the baby in the care of a monk.
Review of Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
