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Live-Action Lone Wolf & Cub Blu-ray Set Listed on Amazon
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Amazon UK is listing a Blu-ray "Criterion Collection" set of the six 1970s live-action film adaptations of movie Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's samurai manga Lone Wolf and Cub. The set is listed as being released on March 27 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The six films are Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons and Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell.
Among the extras listed for the set are a new interview with original manga author Kazuo Koike; a 2005 documentary called Lame d'un Pere, l'ame d'un sabre; and an interview about the sword techniques in the films. The set will also contain Shogun Assassin, the English-dubbed film edited from the first two Japanese features.
Via UK Anime Network.
