Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | |
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 Cover of the AnimEigo DVD. | |
| Directed by | Kenji Misumi |
| Produced by |
Tomisaburo Wakayama Masanori Sanada |
| Written by |
Kazuo Koike Goseki Kojima |
| Starring | Tomisaburo Wakayama |
| Music by | Hideaki Sakurai |
| Cinematography | Fujio Morita |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (子連れ狼 冥府魔道 Kozure Ōkami: Meifumando, literally "Wolf with Child in Tow: Crossroads to Hell") is the fifth 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 by his young son, Daigoro.
Synopsis
Ogami is tested by five messengers, each who try to kill him. After defeating all the messengers, Ogami learns he must kill a young girl who was raised as a boy and is intended to be the heir of a local daimyo, while the real heir, a little boy, is kept locked away. In addition to murdering the senile, old lord, his concubine and the girl, Ogami must stop a document revealing the deception from reaching the hands of his mortal enemy, Yagyū Retsudō. Meanwhile, Ogami Daigoro is again separated from his father and proves his courage and sense of honor as he refuses to admit the guilt of a woman pickpocket he became mixed up with.
Cast
- Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō
- Akihiro Tomikawa as Daigoro
- Akira Yamauchi as Ayabe Ukon, Messenger 1
- Hideji Otaki as Mogami Shusuke, Messenger 2
- Taketoshi Naitô as Mawatara Hachiro, Messenger 3
- Fujio Suga as Kikuchi Yamon, Messenger 4
- Rokko Toura as Sazare Kanbei, Messenger 5
- Shingo Yamashiroas Lord Kuroda Naritaka
- Tomomi Sato as "Quick Change" Oyô
- Michiyo Ookusu as Shiranui
- Koji Fujiyama as Tomekichi the Moll
- Sumida Kazuyo as Hamachiyo
- Bin Amatsu as Inspector Senzo
- Taizen Shishido as Izumi Kazuna
- Eiji Okada as Wakita
- Minoru Ohki as Yagyu Retsudo
Production
- Minoru Ohki is the third of three actors to portray Ittō's mortal enemy Yagyū Retsudō, a character that appears in four of the six films in the series. Ohki portrays the eyepatch-wearing Retsudo in the final two installments, Baby Cart in the Land of Demons and White Heaven and Hell. Tokio Oki portrays him the first film, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance. The character returns in the fourth film, Baby Cart in Peril, and is played by Tatsuo Endo.
- Kenji Misumi, who directed the first three Baby Cart films, returns. The fourth film was directed by Buichi Saito. Yoshiyuki Kuroda directed the final entry in the six-film series, Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell.
External links
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons at the Internet Movie Database
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons at AllMovie