If you loved La storia di Zatoichi, try Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Un ponte tra un film che hai già visto e uno che quasi nessuno ha incrociato. Questo è ciò che condividono, e ciò che il secondo fa che il primo non fa.
Cosa condividono
Both films are directed by Kenji Misumi, and they both carry the foreign gem, tender mood tags, and they sit in Action / Adventure / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to La storia di Zatoichi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance is
Road to Edo. Winter wind. A gate creaks. Disgraced, a samurai wanders the countryside as an assassin, pushing a perambulator holding his toddler and a cache of deadly weapons. The shogun's forces hunt them. Violent, beautiful, and strange, this is among the most influential samurai films ever.
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