Lone wolf and cub
DVD - 2016
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Martial arts films
Action and adventure films
Samurai films
Film adaptations
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection
[2016]
- Language
- Japanese
English - Corporate Author
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- Other Authors
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- Edition
- DVD edition
- Item Description
- Collective title from container.
Originally released as motion pictures 1972-1974, 1980.
Includes 6 films.
Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.
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. - Physical Description
- 4 volumes (1 disc per volume) (approximately 506 mins) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (aspect ratio 2.40:1); Dolby Digital.
- ISBN
- 9781681432236
- 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 (83 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 (81 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 (89 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 (81 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 (89 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 (83 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).