Lone Wolf And Cub 2: Baby Cart At The River Styx 2/6 ( Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma 1972)
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan, and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate who is guarded by the three "Gods of Death"
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LONE WOLF AND CUB: BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX is quite an amazing film. Along with the likes of Shunya Ito's FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION films and Kinji Fukasaku's BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY series, the LONE WOLF AND CUB series is one of the greatest Japanese cult film sagas. RIVER STYX, however, which later would become the majority of SHOGUN ASSASSIN in 1980, is something of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK to the first segment's (SWORD OF VENGENACE) A NEW HOPE.
The violence in BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX is incredible, the direction by Kenji Misumi is taut and the cinematography is bravura, resembling, at times, Tonino Della Colli's stunning cinematography in Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Really, the whole film very much resembles a violent Spaghetti Western with wandering samurai instead of lone gunmen and katanas instead of pistols. The bright red recipe of Japanese stage blood flows in a torrential fashion in this film. Tomisaburo Wakayama's Ogami Ito (or Lone Wolf) is one of the coolest anti-heroes on film, deserving to be mentioned in the same sentence as Clint Eastwood's The Man With No Name. His love for his son Daigoro is touching yet he is a truly a fierce warrior and force to be reckoned with.
BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX is by far the most entertaining and best made of the LONE WOLF AND CUB films. It (along with about 10 minutes from SWORD OF VENGEANCE) would later form the basis for SHOGUN ASSASSIN, a redubbed, rescored American version of the film with a narration track courtesy of Daigoro. While it actually has quite a few improvements over both films, the purist in me still prefers the original. A triumphant orgy of bloodshed and katana slashing.
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