Tag: Kenji Misumi
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…