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Lone Wolf And Cub Criterion Collection (Shogun Assassin)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Synopsis:
The Cult Classic, Six-Film Series Based on the lnternationally Best-SelIing Japanese Manga Comics. Includes: Sword Of Vengeance, Baby Cart At The River STYX, Baby Cart To Hades, Baby Cart ln Peril, Baby Cart ln The Land Of Demons, White Heaven In HelI. Based on the best-selIing manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone WoIf and Cub films eIevated chanbara to bIoody, new heights. The shogun's executioner, ltto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama), takes to wandering the countryside as an assassin-aIong with his infant son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa) and an infiniteIy weaponised perambulator-heIping those he encounters while seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. Delivering stylish thrills and a body count that defies beIief, Lone Wolf and Cub is beloved for its brilliantly choreographed and unbeIievably vioIent action sequences as weIl as for its tender depiction of the bonds between parent and child.
Special Edition Box Set Features: New 2K digitaI restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks High-definition presentation of Shogun Assassin, the 1980 EngIish-dubbed re-edit of the first two Lone WoIf and Cub fiIms New interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series and screenwriter on five of the films Lame d'un Pere, l'ame d'un sabre, a 2005 documentary about the making of the series New interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the reaI Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired those in the manga and fiIms New interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about filmmaker Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six Lone Wolf and Cub fiIms SiIent documentary from 1937 about the making of samurai swords, with an optionaI new ambient score by Ryan Francis Trailers New English subtitle transIations PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film synopses by Japanese pop cuIture writer Patrick Macias |
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