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You can stream Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) on Criterion Channel with a subscription.

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

Sun-drenched roadside inns and dusty villages provide a deceptively peaceful backdrop for a blind masseur's sudden turn toward vengeance. A lonely wanderer transforms into a lethal protector while escorting an orphaned infant through a landscape crawling with opportunistic thugs.