| Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell | |
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Cover of the AnimEigo DVD. |
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| Directed by | Yoshiyuki Kuroda |
| Produced by | Tomisaburo Wakayama Masanori Sanada |
| Written by | Kazuo Koike Goseki Kojima |
| Starring | Tomisaburo Wakayama |
| Music by | Kunihiko Murai |
| Cinematography | Chishi Makiura |
| Distributed by | Toho |
| Release date(s) | 1974 |
| Running time | 83 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (Japanese: 子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎 or Kozure Ōkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro, literally Wolf with Child in Tow: Let's Go To Hell, Daigoro!) is the final entry 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.
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The swordsman Ogami Ittō is confronted by a secretive branch of the Yagyū clan that practices black magic, including the ability to burrow through the earth. He encounters Kaori, a female expert with knives. And there's Hyouei, an illegitimate son of Yagyū Retsudo who kills anyone Ittō and Daigoro come into contact with. It culminates in a final battle between Ittō and the combined clan groups under Retsudo on a snow-capped mountain in northern Japan, in which the baby cart becomes a sled. Ittō defeats the entire army, shooting, stabbing, slashing, dismembering, and beheading the entire army. But the one-eyed Retsudo again gets away, vowing to kill Ittō another time.
Ogami Ittō has 150 on screen kills in this film, the most of any individual character in a movie.[1].
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