Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto 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.
- japan
- assassin
- samurai
- chambara
- jidaigeki
- edo period
- chanbara
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ogami Itto
Fumio Watanabe
Bizennokami Yagyû
Tomoko Mayama
Osen
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kurando Yagyû
- Asao Uchida — Kenmotsu Sugito
- Taketoshi Naitō — Ichige Gyobu
- Yoshi Katō — Danjô Tonami
- Reiko Kasahara — Crazy Woman
- Akihiro Tomikawa — Ogami Daigoro
- Kōji Sekiyama — Kanbei
- Teruo Matsuyama — Monnosuke
- Shunya Wazaki — Horii
- Michimaro Otabe
- Saburo Date — Official Envoy
- Ryūtarō Gomi
- Directed
- Kenji Misumi
- Written
- Kazuo Koike
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 255 ratings
- Studio
- Katsu Production, TOHO
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 · You’re here
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1972
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.
