Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Blind swordsman Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Ichi and kill her, he determines to escort the baby to its father. Ichi gains the reluctant help of a young pickpocket 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.