Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Cover of the AnimEigo DVD.
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 (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.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō
• Akihiro Tomikawa as Daigoro
• Junko Hitomi as Yagyū Kaori
• Isao Kimura as Yagyū Hyouei
• Minoru Ohki as Yagyū Retsudo

Kills

Ogami Ittō has 150 on screen kills in this film, the most of any individual character in a movie..

External links

• Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell at the Internet Movie Database
• Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell at AllRovi