Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart on the River Styx
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| Directed by | Kenji Misumi[i] |
| Screenplay by | Kazuo Koike[ii] |
| Based on | A manga past Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima |
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| Cinematography | Chishi Makiura[two] |
| Edited by | Toshio Taniguchi[2] |
| Music by | Eiken Sakurai[two] |
| Production | Katsu[2] |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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| Running time | 85 minutes[2] |
| Country | Nihon |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx ( 子連れ狼 三途の川の乳母車 , Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma , literally "Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator of the River of Sanzu") is the 2d in a series of six Japanese martial arts films based on the long-running Lone Wolf and Cub manga series about Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied past his young son, Daigoro.[3]
Plot [edit]
Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former executioner, (the Kogi Kaishakunin to the Shōgun), is at present living off the land with his three-year-old son Daigoro, traveling the countryside every bit a hired assassinator. Pushing his son in a infant cart, he stops at a bathhouse looking for a room and a bath and is eagerly welcomed by a young woman. However, the manager of the bathhouse views Ittō as a dirty vagabond and scolds the young woman for letting him enter. Overhearing this, Ittō goes to the baby cart and retrieves a packet and easily it to the manager for safe keeping. It is 500 gold pieces, earned from a recent contract killing. The manager's tone rapidly changes, but when he tries to launder Daigoro'due south feet, the boy kicks water at the man and tromps across the floor, leaving wet footprints backside him.
Ittō'south activities are beingness watched closely by the Kurokawa spy clan of shinobi-class ninja, which accept fallen in with Ittō's nemesis, the Shadow Yagyū. They written report on his activities to Sayaka, head of the Akari Yagyū association of female person assassins. But the Kurokawa are unsure that the women are up to the job of killing Ittō. Sayaka laughs confidently and tells the Kurokawas' leader to send their best human being into the room. She then orders that he to endeavor to get out. He tries by grappling onto the ceiling, but the female assassins set upon him and make curt work of his efforts, hacking off his ears, fingers, arms, and legs, leaving the swordsman a writhing heap of just a body and caput before he is finally finished off.
Ittō, meanwhile, is hired by a association that specializes in making indigo dye and has a surreptitious procedure. 1 of the association plans to sell the cloak-and-dagger to the Shōgun. Ittō must impale him. The turncoat will exist escorted by the 3 Hidari brothers, each a chief of a deadly weapon: the iron hook, the flying mace, and a pair of armored gloves.
As he travels to the job, Ittō encounters three groups of female assassins. The first is disguised as an acrobat troupe that turns deadly as their gymnastic moves are combined with blades and turned against Ittō. Next, he encounters a pair of women who, with blades on their straw hats, throw the blades at Ittō. Finally, some women washing vegetables by the river turn out to too be assassins and the daikons they are washing are now wielded equally weapons. Ittō chop-chop dispatches them all.
He encounters Sayaka, who captures him, his son, and the babe cart in a thick net. Ittō cuts his way out and engages in a sword duel with her. He delivers what should be a disabling blow to her ankles, but the woman jumps straight up out of her kimono to reveal a tight-plumbing fixtures body suit. She runs away, bizarrely jogging backwards while keeping him constantly in her line of sight.
The Kurokawa clan are waiting for Ittō. He sees them and puts together his naginata (bearded as railing on the infant cart) and gives the baby cart a shove toward the waiting clan. Daigoro, still in the cart, activates blades hidden within the cart's rolling axles, which slice off the feet of several of the association. A tearing boxing ensues, and Ittō is injured before he has silenced them all.
Weary from the countless fighting, Ittō struggles along the road and eventually finds shelter in a shack. Daigoro, seeing that his father needs his assist, must do what he can. Unable to carry river water in his tiny hands, Daigoro transports information technology in his oral fissure. He spits what he is able to comport between his father's lips. For food, Daigoro finds some rice cakes given as an offer to a Buddha statue and takes them to his father, leaving his belong in exchange.
Ittō recovers and finds that his son is missing. Daigoro has been taken by the Kurokawa and Sayaka, and is now tied up and suspended over a deep water well. If Ittō attacks, they will allow go of the rope and Daigoro will plunge to his death. Daigoro lets his sandal drop into the well, giving his father a gauge of how far it is to the bottom. Ittō makes his move every bit the rope unspools, stopping it just in time. He slowly pulls up his son. Sayaka watches silently and makes no motion to engage his considerable swordsmanship, perhaps to laurels the devotion of a father to his kid.
Ittō later finds himself aboard the same ship carrying the three Hidari brothers. Ittō watches silently as members of the indigo-dye association attempt to kill the Hidaris, just are bloodily eliminated one-by-ane. Another clan member sets the ship afire in an attempt to kill the Hidaris, only the iii hands escape the fire, jumping into the bounding main. Ittō tosses Daigoro and the baby cart into the water, the cart hands floating equally he pushes it while pond toward shore.
Sayaka has followed Ittō and his son onto the ship and is in the water with them as the transport burns. She tries to kill Ittō, simply she is quickly disarmed. All three notice shelter, but they are at present common cold. Ittō removes his and Daigoro's wet garments and turns on Sayaka, tearing off her clothes. He does not intend to rape her. Instead, he is seeking to go her out of her own cold, wet wear, while clinging to her and Daigoro. "3 people are warmer than two", he unemotionally explains. She considers taking his sword and killing him, but the cozy, now warming scene, with Daigoro sitting between them and playfully fondling her breast, makes her abandon the plan.
On a vast area of sand dunes, the Hidari brothers are at the caput of a caravan of men conveying a palanquin with the turncoat indigo good riding inside. The brother with the fe hook runs forward and thrusts his claw into the sand, which boils up with blood. At that place are men hiding in dunes, every bit he digs his claw into the sand several more times, each fourth dimension creating a pool of claret and pulling upwards a hiding swordsman by his caput. The rest of the subconscious men emerge from the sand to fight, but the three brothers easily dispatch them all.
Ittō now awaits, alone, atop a large dune. Each brother is killed past him in a high-force per unit area spray of blood, with the last blood brother eliminated with a lethal strike along his throat, a cut that sprays arterial blood in a fine mist while making a sound similar the "howling of the wind". The last Hidari blood brother says that such a fabled finishing stroke is chosen the "Mogaribue", wishing that the sound had come from one of his own victims. Instead, it is now coming from his own neck as his life slowly drains away.
Ittō approaches the palanquin belongings the indigo expert and quickly finishes him before gathering up Daigoro and setting off again. They are at present out of the desert and on a coastal trail, followed closely by Sayaka. Aware of her presence, Ittō stops the cart, looking direct ahead while holding out his outstretched dotanuki blade. Sayaka is property a katana. Ittō stands quietly however, waiting, until he hears the sound of Sayaka dropping the blade. She realizes that she can never defeat the Shōgun'southward old master executioner.
Bandage [edit]
- Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō
- Akihiro Tomikawa as Ogami Daigoro
- Kayo Matsuo as Yagyu Sayaka
- Akiji Kobayashi as Ozuno, Leader of the Kurokuwa Group
- Minoru Ōki as Tenma Hidari, Master of Death ii
- Shin Kishida as Kuruma Hidari, Master of Death 3
Release [edit]
Alone Wolf and Cub: Babe Cart at the River Styx was released theatrically in Japan on 22 April 1972 where it was distributed past Toho.[2] An English language-language dubbed version of the film was released past New World Pictures on November 11, 1980.[2] The picture is heavily altered with a 90-infinitesimal running time.[2]
The film was released on home video in the Usa in its original form in Japanese with English subtitles every bit Solitary Wolf and Cub - Baby Cart at the River Styx by Samurai Cinema, a division of AnimEigo Inc.[2] The 1980 version was released to home video past AnimEigo in 2006.[2]
References [edit]
Footnotes [edit]
- ^ "映画監督 三隅研次" (in Japanese). National Movie Annal of Japan. Retrieved Nov 22, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f thousand h i j k l yard Galbraith Iv 2008, p. 282.
- ^ "子連れ狼 三途の川の乳母車". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
Sources [edit]
- Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN978-1461673743.
External links [edit]
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx at IMDb
- Solitary Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx at AllMovie
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub:_Baby_Cart_at_the_River_Styx
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