Shogun Assassin - Lone Wolf and Cub 2 DVD A Sógun Orgyilkosa - Magányos farkas és a farkaskölyök 1-2 / Directed by Kenji Misumi / Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Mautso, Akiji Kobayashi

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MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: Japanese, English, Hungarian

Subtitles: Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 82 + 80 + 81 MINUTES (2 discs)

English Summary:

DVD 1

Shogun Assassin is a jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980. In 2006 it was restored and re-released on DVD in the United States by AnimEigo.

Shogun Assassin was edited and compiled from the first two films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, using 12 minutes of the first film, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru or Wolf with Child in Tow: Child and Expertise for Rent), and most of Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma or Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator of the River of Sanzu). Both were originally released in 1972. There were six films in all in the series. These, in turn, were based on the long-running 1970s manga series Lone Wolf and Cub created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Tomisaburô Wakayama as Lone Wolf: The Shogun's disgraced, former executioner. 'Lone Wolf' (also known as Ogami Ittō) becomes an assassin-for-hire after his wife is murdered and he defies the Shogun. He travels throughout the land with his son Daigorō, and together they seek revenge against the Shogun. They are known as "Assassin with Son".
• Kayo Matsuo as Supreme Ninja: Known as the Supreme Ninja, she is the leader of an all-female group of ninja assassins. She is ordered by the Shogun to kill Lone Wolf.
• Minoru Ôki (credited as Minoru Ohki) as Eldest Master of Death; his primary weapon is a metal claw: The 'Masters of Death' are a team of three ninja brothers that are hired to escort and protect the Shogun's brother (Lord Kiru).
• Shôgen Nitta as Master of Death: Middle member of the 'Masters of Death'; his primary weapon is a knobbed metal club.
• Shin Kishida as Master of Death: Younger member of the 'Masters of Death'; his primary weapon is spiked gauntlets.
• Akihiro Tomikawa (credited as Masahiro Tomikawa) as Daigorō: Lone Wolf's three-year-old son.
• Reiko Kasahara as Azami, Lone Wolf's murdered wife and Daigorō's mother.
• Akiji Kobayashi (credited as Shoji Kobayashi) as Lord Kurogawa, leader of one of the Shogun's ninja groups.
• Taketoshi Naitô as Lord Bizen: One of the Shogun's sons.
• Tokio Oki as The Shogun: The sworn enemy of the Lone Wolf, the Shogun ordered the murder of Lone Wolf for his defiance. Since then, the Shogun has tried repeatedly to have Lone Wolf and his son (Daigorō) killed.
• Lamont Johnson as Voice-over for Lone Wolf
• Marshall Efron as Voice-over
• Sandra Bernhard as Voice-over for The Supreme Ninja
• Lennie Weinrib as Voice-over
• Sam Weisman as Voice-over
• Mark Lindsay as Voice-over
• Robert Houston as Voice-over
• David Weisman as Voice-over
• Gibran Evans as Voice of Daigorō

DVD 2

A total of six Lone Wolf and Cub films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō and Tomikawa Akihiro as Daigoro have been produced based on the manga. They are also known as the Sword of Vengeance series, based on the English-language title of the first film, and later as the Baby Cart series, because young Daigoro travels in a baby carriage pushed by his father.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (子連れ狼　三途の川の乳母車, Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma, literally "Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator of the River of Sanzu") is the second 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.

Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former executioner, (the Kogi Kaishakunin to the Shōgun), is now living off the land with his three-year-old son Daigoro, traveling the countryside as a hired assassin. Pushing his son in a baby cart, he stops at a bathhouse looking for a room and a bath and is eagerly welcomed by a young woman. However, the manager of the bathhouse views Ittō as a dirty vagabond and scolds the young woman for letting him enter. Overhearing this, Ittō goes to the baby cart and retrieves a bundle and hands it to the manager for safe keeping. It is 500 gold pieces, earned from a recent contract killing. The manager's tone quickly changes, but when he tries to wash Daigoro's feet, the boy kicks water at the man and tromps across the floor, leaving wet footprints behind him.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō
• Akihiro Tomikawa as Ogami Daigoro
• Kayo Matsuo as Yagyu Sayaka
• Akiji Kobayashi as Ozuno, Leader of the Kurokuwa Group
• Minoru Ohki as Tenma Hidari, Master of Death 2
• Shin Kishida as Kuruma Hidari, Master of Death 3

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼　子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる, Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru) is a 1972 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi. It is the first in a series of six films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. The film tells the story of Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied by his young son, Daigoro.

Set in Japan during an unspecified year of the Edo period, Ogami Ittō, disgraced former executioner, or Kogi Kaishakunin, to the shōgun, wanders the countryside, pushing a baby cart with his 3-year-old son Daigoro inside. A banner hangs off his back. "Ogami: Suiouryo technique" (Child and expertise for rent) (子を[son] 貸し[for hire] 腕 [arm|skill] 貸し[for hire] つかまつる [to serve] 水 鷗流 [Suiouryo] 拜一刀 [ogami ittō]), it says. His services are asked for in a most unexpected way, when an insane woman seizes Daigoro from the cart and proceeds to try to breastfeed the boy. Daigoro at first hesitates, but after a stern look from his father, he proceeds to suckle the woman's breast. The woman's mother then apologizes for her daughter's behavior and tries to give Ittō money, but the stoic rōnin refuses, saying his son was hungry anyway.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Tomisaburo Wakayama as Ogami Ittō
• Akihiro Tomikawa as Ogami Daigoro
• Tomoko Mayama as Osen, the prostitute
• Fumio Watanabe as Yagyu Bizen-no-kami
• Keiko Fujita as Ogami Asami
• Reiko Kasahara as Madwoman
• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Yagyū Kurando
• Yūnosuke Itō as Yagyū Retsudo

Hungarian Description:

Ogami Itto a sógun leghűbb szamurája, aki nem kérdőjelezi meg gazdája parancsait, és kegyetlenül végez annak ellenlábasaival. Amikor viszont hazatér, szerető férj és gondoskodó apa válik belőle. A sógun azonban egyre inkább elveszti az eszét, és félteni kezdi hatalmát Ogamitól, ezért bérgyilkosokat küld ellene, akik azonban csak Azamit, Ogami feleségét ölik meg. A gazdátlanná vált szamuráj ezután bosszút esküszik, és kisfiával, Daigoróval együtt számol le a sógun csatlósaival.

A sógun orgyilkosa egyike a legjobb és legvéresebb szamurájfilmeknek, nem véletlen, hogy még Ouentin Tarantinót 15 megihlette a Kill Bill készítésekor. Olyannyira, hogy annak második részében egy rövid részlettel is tisztelgett a film előtt. A magyar kiadás egyedülálló a világon, hiszen az alap extrák mellett megtalálható rajta a Magányos farkas és farkaskölyök (Lone Wolf and Cub) című sorozat első két része is, amelyekből A sógun orgyilkosá-t összevágták.

A dupla lemezes, exkluzív kiadás tehát három filmet kínál egy DVD áráért. Különlegesség a kétoldalas, kifordítható borító is, amelynek egyik oldala a kultikus A sógun orgyilkosa, a másik pedig a Magányos farkas és farkaskölyök (Lone Wolf and Cub) címét és borítóképét tartalmazza. Ezzel gondolva a gyűjtőkre.

1. lemez:

interaktív menű, közvetlen jelenetválasztás, képgalérija, előzetesek, japán történelemóra, filmösszehasonlítás

2. lemez:
Magányos farkas és farkaskölyök: A bosszú kardja (80 perc, japán hang, magyar felirat)
Magányos farkas és farkaskölyök: Babakocsi a Sanzu folyónál (81 perc, japán hang, magyar felirat)