Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx - Kenji Misumi 1972
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
My rating: 6/10
The Lone Wolf and Cub movies started out pretty strong, then devolved into some dour, obnoxious, overly edgy bullshit. This last one, at least, manages to jump the proverbial shark back into the realms of entertainment, what with the funky tunes, evil jugglers, revenants, ninjas, mole people(?) and the big sledding/skiing climax. Unfortunately there is one utterly pointless scene of incestuous rape and murder, which adds nothing to the movie except a bad taste in my mouth and keeps me from rating this any higher.
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Ogami Itto and his son, Daigoro - the Lone Wolf and Cub!
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as Ogami Ittō and Akihiro Tomikawa as Daigoro
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6.5 / 10
Título Original: Shogun Assassin
Año: 1980
Duración: 85 min
País: Estados Unidos - Japón
Dirección: Robert Houston
Guion: Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, David Weisman. Manga: Kazuo Koike
Música: W. Michael Lewis, Mark Lindsay, Kunihiko Murai, Hideaki Sakurai
Fotografía: Chisi Makiura
Reparto: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Oki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Akihiro Tomikawa, Shogen Nitta. Voz: Lamont Johnson, Marshall Efron
Productora: Coproducción Japón-Estados Unidos; Baby Cart, Toho, Katsu Production
Género: Action; Adventure
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1972)
Cast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Go Kato, Tomoko Mayama, Yuko Hama, Shigero Tsuyuguchi, Asao Uchida, Taketoshi Naito, Yoshi Kato, Azami Ogami, Akihiro Tomikawa. Screenplay: Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima. Cinematography: Chikashi Makiura. Art direction: Akira Naito. Film editing: Toshio Taniguchi. Music: Eiken Sakurai, Hideaki Sakurai.
The Lone Wolf and Cub series, of which Sword of Vengeance is the first, has something in common with the Zatoichi films, such as Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964) and Kenji Misumi's own The Tale of Zatoichi (1962): They're about handicapped warriors traveling through hostile territory. Zatoichi is blind, whereas Ogami Itto is simply encumbered with a small child, his son. Yet somehow they beat the odds, fighting off whole armies out to get them. It's a good premise, made more suspenseful in the Lone Wolf films because we naturally don't want to see small children put in harm's way. Which Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance does from the very outset, in which Ogami, the official executioner, is forced to behead an infant, setting up the plot which leads him into a very real hell. Ogami is an intriguing character, which helped me put up with the somewhat routine villainy and violence of the film.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Director Kenji Misumi returns for the fourth instalment of the Lone Wolf and Cub series – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril, Ittō Ogami (once again played by Tomisaburo Wakayama) and his son Daigoro (played once more by Akihiro Tomikawa) are back and this time they are up against the tattooed female assassin Oyuki (Michie Azuma).
Oyuki is killing every man that is sent up against her. Along…
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | Buichi Saitô | 1972
Akihiro Tomikawa
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Daigoro getting a ride in his tricked-out perambulator.
This thing was bulletproof, had blades that shot out from the wheels, the handle turned into a double-bladed spear, and there was a Gatling gun hidden behind a panel in the front. All while providing a smooth, comfortable ride.
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