Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92749 in DVD
• Brand: Animeigo
• Released on: 2004-06-08
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Animated, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 81 minutes

Customer Reviews

Beware Topless Assassins!
This 4th in the Series, brought to you by the folks that let you know sword fighting was a messy and WET business, begins with a lovely young woman, topless and tatooed, slicing up some men in tip-top fashion. Our hero, the implacable and stone-faced Ogami Itto, former Shogun Executioner presently master ronin assassin, will be hired to dispatch the young lady to the next world.

This entry is the first not directed by Kenji Mishimi, and is told a little more elliptically with many flashbacks that fill in more detail on the backstory of the Yagyu Clan's enmity toward Ogami Itto that lead them to murder his wife and set him and his young son on the road as "demons at the crossroads of Hell". Lord Retsudo, Itto's arch enemy, reappears and there is much clan intrigue and skull-duggery going on.

There is still plenty of fighting and bloody mayhem, a fight in a temple has Ninja arms and legs being lopped off willy-nilly left and right. There is a lot of spraying blood, but there is also the same attention to period detail and the explanation of customs & codes of this long ago civilization, helped by great Liner Notes & Subtitles.

It all climaxes with a hellacious fight with Ogami wiping out another army of opponents, but this time by using the terrain of gullies and ravines to his advantage. He ends the fight by taking Retsudo's eye but is badly wounded himself in the process. But, of course, he will live to fight another day.

Graphic & fantastic, serious and silly, the Lone Wolf & Cub series is a kick if you've a mind for it.

Great, Superior, Samurai
The third of six Lone Wolf and Cub movies. From the opening scene in wich a topless, tatooed woman takes out a group of roughnecks with sword flashing ease, you cant help but be hooked. Consistent with the series trademarks, many fight scenes, lots of heads, arms, and legs roll, and, the obligatory, fountains of blood. Never drags. Big fight climax with Ogami Ito unleashing the baby cart full of weapons and then taking on an army. The best fight sequence though, has him against ninjas, in almost total darkness- all you see is limbs being lobbed off and ninjas hitting the floor. GREAT!

The person below mentions "Shogun Assasin", wich was released back in the 80's. It was basically the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies horribly edited together(with some gore cut out of the fights) to make one movie.

Awesome
This film may be my favorite of the whole series. This film features such an accurate representation of issue #23 of LW&C: performers, and the story itself is very moving. O-Yuki is a very sympathetic character that whose quest for revenge is even more admirable than Itto's as she was not only disgraced but violated as a woman. (...) The ending battle scene is also magnificent. (...) While the battle is not as visceral as the one in the previous entry or part 6, this film's battle is still quite magnificent. As I said before, this is my favorite film in the whole series though all of them feature spectacular amounts of bloodshed.