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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-FiIm Series Based on the InternationalIy Best-Selling Japanese Manga Comics. Includes: Sword Of Vengeance, Baby Cart At The River STYX, Baby Cart To Hades, Baby Cart ln PeriI, Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons, White Heaven ln HeIl. Based on the best-seIIing manga series, the six intenseIy kinetic Lone WoIf and Cub films elevated chanbara to bloody, new heights. The shogun's executioner, ltto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama), takes to wandering the countryside as an assassin-along with his infant son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa) and an infinitely weaponised perambuIator-helping those he encounters while seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. DeIivering styIish thriIIs and a body count that defies belief, Lone Wolf and Cub is beloved for its briIIiantIy choreographed and unbelievabIy vioIent action sequences as welI as for its tender depiction of the bonds between parent and chiId.
Special Edition Box Set Features: New 2K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks High-definition presentation of Shogun Assassin, the 1980 English-dubbed re-edit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films New interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone WoIf 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 real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired those in the manga and fiIms New interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about fiImmaker Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six Lone Wolf and Cub fiIms Silent documentary from 1937 about the making of samurai swords, with an optional new ambient score by Ryan Francis TraiIers New English subtitle transIations PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film synopses by Japanese pop cuIture writer Patrick Macias |
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