The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.
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Cast
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| Tomisaburô Wakayama | ... | Ogami Itto | |
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Fumio Watanabe | ... | Bizennokami Yagyû |
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Gô Katô | ... | Ikiyu |
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Tomoko Mayama | ... | Osen (whore) |
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Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | ... | Kurando Yagyû |
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Asao Uchida | ... | Kenmotsu Sugito |
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Taketoshi Naitô | ... | Ichige |
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Yoshi Katô | ... | Danjô Tonami |
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Keiko Fujita | ... | Azami Ogami |
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Reiko Kasahara | ... | Crazy Woman |
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Ichirô Nakae | ||
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Michitarô Mizushima | ||
| Akihiro Tomikawa | ... | Daigoro | |
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In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro. Written by Anonymous
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[They go to the shrine]
Ogami Itto: To pay respect to, and to offer prayers for the souls of those I have been ordered to execute by the Shogunate I have built this shrine.
Inspector Yagyu Bizen-no-Kami: It is most respectful! I am moved. It does you great credit, Ogami.
Ogami Itto: Why it's...!
Inspector Yagyu Bizen-no-Kami: What do we have here? Of all things... a death memorial tablet bearing the emblem of ...
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Footage from the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films (Sword of Vengeance and Baby Cart on the River Styx) from 1972 (Japan) would years later be re-edited into an American film called Shogun Assassin (1980). This merger of the two films would go on to earn it's place in American pop culture as one of the most notorious exploitation films of the early 80's. See more »Quotes
Inspector Yagyu Bizen-no-Kami: So you see, as three warriors have paid their lives to present this declaration I must now exercise my official right to inspect your shrine. Ogami, take me to the shrine.[They go to the shrine]
Ogami Itto: To pay respect to, and to offer prayers for the souls of those I have been ordered to execute by the Shogunate I have built this shrine.
Inspector Yagyu Bizen-no-Kami: It is most respectful! I am moved. It does you great credit, Ogami.
Ogami Itto: Why it's...!
Inspector Yagyu Bizen-no-Kami: What do we have here? Of all things... a death memorial tablet bearing the emblem of ...
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Alternate Versions
The 1999 UK video was cut by 6 secs by the BBFC to edit a scene where a woman is stripped topless, and the Artsmagic DVD featured the same print. The 2009 Eureka release (featured in the "Lone Wolf & Cub Collection") is fully uncut. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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My knowledge in Japanese samurai films is a bit narrow, but I'll take the chance to draw a parallelism between east and west cinema that could sound blasphemous or stupid to somebody who knows more about it. But I suppose, if westerns had John Ford as a traditionalist filmmaker and Sergio Leone as a revolutioner who shattered that sanitized and mythic image and made it dirty and unheroic, I could apply that same logic to samurai films of Akira Kurosawa and then to what Kenji Misumi accomplished in this first chapter. I guess that shallow explanation could serve a newcomer to picture what kind of brilliant and bloody action film they'll find here. also judging from the bloody fight scenes its clear where Tarantino got his influence for his Kill Bill films.