Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Showings

Grand Illusion Cinema Fri, Nov 3, 2023 9:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sat, Nov 4, 2023 9:30 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1972
Genre:Drama
Action
Production Country:Japan
Original Language:Japanese
Format:DCP
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Kenji Misumi
Cast:Tomisaburo Wakayama
Fumio Watanabe
Tomoko Mayama
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Asao Uchida

Description

Presented by Kung Fu Clubhouse!

 

Ogami Itto, the executioner for the Tokogawa Shogunate, has been framed as disloyal to the ruling family by the villainous Yagyu clan. After finding his wife murdered with only his young son, Daigoro, surviving, Itto refuses to end his own life as punishment. He sets forth on the Path of the Demon, protecting Daigoro from Yagyu assassins while offering his own services as an assassin-for-hire. Ogami Itto wanders the 18th century countryside, pushing his infant son in a baby cart while biding his time to wage war on the Yagyu clan.

 

SWORD OF VENGEANCE is the inaugural entry in the LONE WOLF AND CUB film series, based on the endlessly influential manga. The LONE WOLF AND CUB movies are perfect specimens of contemporary martial arts masterpieces which have influenced countless other stories, spanning decades; from KILL BILL VOL. I, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL, THE MANDALORIAN, THE LAST OF US, and BOB’S BURGERS’s "Hawk & Chick".