Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub’s origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Kenji Misumi
Tomisaburō Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Asao Uchida, Tomoko Mayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Goro Kumon, Taketoshi Naitô, Yoshi Katō, Keiko Fujita, Reiko Kasahara, Kauji Sokiyamo, Teruo Matsuyama, Shunya Wazaki, Michimaro Otabe, Saburo Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kōji Fujiyama, Jun Takigawa, Hisao Hamita, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Manabu Morita, Hajime Etsukawa, Jun Fujikawa, Shōji Mori, Sumao Ishihara, Kôji Uehara, Tamotsu Fujiharu, Jun Soloni, Kanae Kobayashi, Tokio Oki, Shinji Nunome, Iwao Kasumi, Kazuo Mortuchi, Junichi Naitou, Kazuo Ôbayashi, Yoshumitsu Shimonura, Kazuyo Yanaka, Massmi Koshiomon, Chizuru Kobayashi, Yutaka Nakamura, Yûji Hamada, Yûsaku Terashima
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