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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the sort of wild movie he’d always wanted to: one in … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)

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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Balancing physical action with Buddhist musings on life and death, the most spiritual of the Lone Wolf and Cub films finds Ogami’s combat skills put … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)

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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is hired by the Owari clan to assassinate a tattooed woman … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)

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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Unfolding in an idyllic countryside that contrasts sharply with the violence that occurs within it, the third Lone Wolf and Cub film follows Itto Ogami … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which took the action and graphic violence of the Lone Wolf and Cub series to delirious new heights, Itto Ogami and … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

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Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into the ranks of the all-time great samurai movie icons. In … Continue reading Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

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