Blind Fury
He's lucky he can't see what he's up against.
Country
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$2 692 037
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Tim Matheson, Daniel Grodnik, Robert W. Cort, David Madden
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Peter Murton, Yancy Calzada
Audition
Junie Lowry-Johnson
Editing
David A. Simmons
Whole Team (82)
Whole Team (82)
Short description
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rутger Hauer was taught swordsmanship and how to imitate the movements of a blind person by Lynn Manning, a budoka (a term for those who practice Japanese martial arts) who lost his sight at the age of 23.
- For the role, Rutger Hauer took samurai sword lessons from Sho Kosugi, who also appeared in the film.
- Tim Matheson introduced screenwriter Charles Robert Carner to producer Daniel Grodnick. Matheson wanted to learn how to produce. Grodnick told him that if he found a script that Grodnick liked, they would produce the film together. A couple of weeks later, Matheson was already showing Grodnick Kimiyoshi Yasuda's action film “Sword of Zatoichi” (1967) for a potential remake. During the work on the film about the blind samurai in America, directors and film studios changed (two and three respectively), but after seven years and ten script rewrites, the film was ready.
- For the role, Rutger Hauer took lessons in samurai sword fighting from Sho Kosugi, who also appeared in the film.
- The British version of the film was cut, and it lacks the scene where the character played by Hower says the line, "Gasoline mixed with detergent..."
- Rutger Hauer and stunt coordinator Stephen Lambert began working on scenes and stunts for Hauer's role in this film three months before principal photography began. Training took place every day – and continued for all ten weeks of filming. Hauer would only begin shooting after a daily two-hour workout.
- Screenwriter Charles Robert Carne wrote to introduce Tim Matheson to producer Daniel Grodnik. Matheson wanted to learn producing. Grodnik told him that if he could find a script that Grodnik liked, they would produce the film together. A couple of weeks later, Matheson showed Grodnik Kimiyoshi Yasuda's action film 'Zatoichi' (1967) as a candidate for a remake. During the production of the film about a blind samurai in America, directors and studios changed (there were two directors and three studios in total), but after seven years and ten script rewrites, the film was completed.
- Rutger Hauer and fight choreographer Stephen Lambert began working on the scenes and stunts for Hauer's role three months before filming began. The sessions took place every day throughout the entire ten-week shoot. Hauer only began filming after a daily two-hour workout.
- Rutger Hauer was taught swordplay and how to mimic the movements of a blind person by budoka (a term for those who practice Japanese martial arts) Lynn Manning, who had gone blind at the age of 23.
- The film is based on the Japanese series "The Tale of Zatoichi."
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