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Lone wolf and cub / Toho Co. Ltd.

Misumi, Kenji, 1921-1975 (film director.). Katsu, Shintarō, 1931-1997 (film producer.). Matsubara, Hisaharu, (film producer.). Koike, Kazuo, 1936-2019 (screenwriter.). Saitō, Buichi, 1925-2011 (film director.). Sanada, Masanori, (film producer.). Kuroda, Yoshiyuki, 1928-2015 (film director.). Nakamura, Tsutomu (Screenwriter), (screenwriter.). Weisman, David, (film producer,, screenwriter.). Houston, Robert, (film director,, screenwriter.). Shanaberg, Peter, 1947-1993 (film producer.). Wakayama, Tomisaburō, 1929-1992 (actor,, film producer.). Tomikawa, Akihiro, 1968- (actor.). Koike, Kazuo, 1936-2019 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kozure Okami. (Added Author). Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, (production company.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa. (Cast).

Summary:

Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
Baby cart at the River Styx: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which took the action and graphic violence of the Lone Wolf and Cub series to delirious new heights, Itto Ogami and Daigoro continue their quest for vengeance through meifumado, the spiritual way of "demons and damnation," pursued constantly by the Shadow Yagyu clan and the shogun's spies.
Baby cart in Hades:Unfolding in an idyllic countryside that contrasts sharply with the violence that occurs within it, the third Lone Wolf and Cub film follows Itto Ogami and Daigoro as they continue their journey and stumble upon a crime scene involving a group of lowlife swordsmen from the watari-kashi class.
Baby cart in peril: In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is hired by the Owari clan to assassinate a tattooed woman who is killing her enemies and cutting off their topknots. Meanwhile, Daigoro is separated from his father when he follows a pair of traveling street performers outside of town.
Baby cart in the land of demons: 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan!
White heaven in hell: In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the sort of wild movie he'd always wanted to: one in which Lone Wolf battles zombies and Daigoro's baby cart zips improbably across an icy landscape on skis.
Shogun Assassin, made in 1980, is an English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films, Sword of vengeance and Baby cart at the River Styx.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681432236
  • ISBN: 1681432234
  • Physical Description: 5 videodiscs (506 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet + 1 folded sheet.
  • Edition: Five-DVD special edition.
  • Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Collective title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures 1972-1974, 1980.
Includes 7 films and their trailers.
Special features: New 2K digital restorations of all six films; high-definition presentation of Shogun assassin, a 1980 English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone wolf and cub films; new interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone wolf and cub manga series and screenwriter on five of the films; Lame d'un père, l'âme d'un sabre, a 2005 documetnary about the makin of the series; new interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired the ones depicted in the manga and films; new interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six films; silent documentary from 1937 about the making of samurai swords, with an optional new ambient score by Ryan Francis; trailers; new English subtitle translations.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disc 1. Lone wolf and cub, Sword of vengeance = Kozure Ôkami kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru / director, Kenji Misumi ; producers, Shintarō Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara ; screenplay, Kazuo Koike ; cinematography, Chikashi Makiura ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Hideaki Sakurai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (84 min. ; ©1972) ; Lone wolf and cub, Baby cart at the River Styx = Kozure Ôkami sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma / director, Kenji Misumi ; producers, Shintarō Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara ; screenplay, Kazuo Koike ; cinematography, Chikashi Makiura ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Hideaki Sakurai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (82 min. ; ©1972).
disc 2. Lone wolf and cub, Baby cart to Hades = Kozure Ôkami shinikaze ni mukau ubaguruma / director, Kenji Misumi ; producers, Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara ; screenplay, Kazuo Koike ; cinematography, Chikashi Makiura ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Hideaki Sakurai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (90 min. ; ©1972) ; Lone wolf and cub, Baby cart in peril = Kozure Ôkami oyano kokoro kono kokoro / director, Buichi Saito ; producers, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Hisaharu Matsubara ; screenplay, Kazuo Koike ; cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Hideaki Sakurai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (82 min. ; ©1972).
disc 3. Lone wolf and cub, Baby cart in the land of demons = Kozure Ôkami meifu mado / director, Kenji Misumi ; producers, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada ; screenplay, Kazuo Koike, Tsutomu Nakamura ; cinematography, Fujio Morita ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Hideaki Sakurai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (90 min. ; ©1973) ; Lone wolf and cub, White heaven in Hell = Kozure Ôkami jigokue ikuzo Daigoro / director, Yoshiyuki Kuroda ; producers, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masanori Sanada ; screenplay, Tsutomu Nakamura ; cinematography, Chikashi Makiura ; editing, Toshio Taniguchi ; music, Kunihiko Marai ; fight choreography, Eiichi Kusumoto (84 min. ; ©1974).
disc 4. Shogun assassin / David Weisman and Peter Shanaberg present a Toho Company-Katsu Production ; screenplay by Kazuo Koike and Robert Houston, David Weisman ; directed by Robert Houston (85 min. ; ©1980) -- disc 5. [Special features].
Participant or Performer Note:
Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (aspect ratio 2.40:1); Dolby Digital.
Language Note:
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Subject: Shoguns > Drama.
Martial arts > Drama.
Revenge > Drama.
Fathers and sons > Japan > Drama.
Genre: Martial arts films.
Action and adventure films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Motion pictures > Japan.
Feature films > Japan.
Foreign language films > Japanese.
Fiction films.
Motion pictures > Japan.
Video recordings.
Drama.

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Summary: Sword of vengeance: He was Ogami Itto, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido. Their first commission: to save the life of Daimyo and kill the traitors that plot his death. Baby Cart at the River Styx: The Yagyu clan has murdered Ogami Itto's wife, and had him stripped of his position of Official Shogunate Second. Now Ogami and his son Diagoro wander the countryside.
Baby cart at the River Styx: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which took the action and graphic violence of the Lone Wolf and Cub series to delirious new heights, Itto Ogami and Daigoro continue their quest for vengeance through meifumado, the spiritual way of "demons and damnation," pursued constantly by the Shadow Yagyu clan and the shogun's spies.
Baby cart in Hades:Unfolding in an idyllic countryside that contrasts sharply with the violence that occurs within it, the third Lone Wolf and Cub film follows Itto Ogami and Daigoro as they continue their journey and stumble upon a crime scene involving a group of lowlife swordsmen from the watari-kashi class.
Baby cart in peril: In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is hired by the Owari clan to assassinate a tattooed woman who is killing her enemies and cutting off their topknots. Meanwhile, Daigoro is separated from his father when he follows a pair of traveling street performers outside of town.
Baby cart in the land of demons: 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan!
White heaven in hell: In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the sort of wild movie he'd always wanted to: one in which Lone Wolf battles zombies and Daigoro's baby cart zips improbably across an icy landscape on skis.
Shogun Assassin, made in 1980, is an English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films, Sword of vengeance and Baby cart at the River Styx.

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