Category: Choose the Sword

• August 30, 2025

  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…
• August 15, 2025

  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…
• July 30, 2025

  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…
• June 30, 2025

  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…
• June 15, 2025

  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…
• May 30, 2025

  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…