Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
- martial arts
- japan
- kung fu
- assassin
- samurai
- sword
- yakuza
- villain
- gore
- sequel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ogami Itto
Gō Katō
Magomura Kanbei
Yūko Hamada
Torizo / Tori Miura
Isao Yamagata
Sawatari Genba
- Michitarō Mizushima — Itakura Naizen-no-Sho
- Ichirō Nakatani — Yagyu Samurai
- Akihiro Tomikawa — Ogami Daigoro
- Sayoko Katō — Omatsu
- Jun Hamamura — Miura Tatewaki
- Daigo Kusano — Kuchiki Rokubei
- Shunya Wazaki — Ikiji Samon
- Hiroshi Nawa — Monkumatsu
- Sakae Umezu
- Saburo Date — Swift-style Swordsman
- Hatsuo Yamaya
- Directed
- Kenji Misumi
- Written
- Kazuo Koike
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 167 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO, Katsu Production
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1972Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Where it starts.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1972 · You’re here
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
