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Lone Wolf and Cub Vol 4: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)

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Posted on March 11, 2007 by Alison

This is the first film I’ve seen that starts with a nipple. I’ve mentioned this fact to a few people, and the response has overwhelmingly been “So what?” No-one else has been at all impressed, and it seems that I’ve been watching all the wrong films. Apparently it’s nipples-a-go-go out there in cinema-land, and everyone’s off to see the latest Kurosawa Nipple Retrospective, leaving me alone in my nippleless wilderness.

Be that as it may, the aforementioned nipple works well … (read more)

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Lone Wolf and Cub Vol 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Justin

Following on from the first film in the series, Sword of Vengeance, Baby Cart at the River Styx continues the story of Ogami Itto and his baby son Daigoro as they wander the Japanese landscape as assassins-for-hire. Dour and quiet, Ogami is still haunted by the death of his wife, and early in the story we hear the chimes that were ringing as she was murdered in the first film.

After the events of the first film, the Yagyu … (read more)

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