Plot

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

While traveling the Japanese countryside the blind masseur Zatoichi comes across the One Armed Swordsman, Wang Kang, who is in hiding and protecting a child from a corrupt Japanese priest and a group of yakuza. Zatoichi and Wang Kang, each from very different worlds yet heroic swordsman in their own right, at first seem to get along but a language barrier and a series of misunderstanding leads Kang to distrust Ichi. Soon the two heroes are at each other throats while each attempts to stop the true villains from taking the child.—Daniel Jos. Leary

Zatoichi hears rumors of a foreign fighter in Japan. The One-Armed Swordsman is a fugitive back on his heels. Soon, language and cultural barriers between two noble heroes creates an outloud mistrust that forces the men into violent confrontation.—ArtDocHound