Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally has generally received positive reviews.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally was released in 1989 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 126 reviews, giving Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (1989) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 74%, Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1989 with similar scores include films like The Abyss, Lethal Weapon 2 and Field of Dreams.
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