Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Midnight weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnight)!
Director: Kenji Misumi Run Time: 83 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1972 Language: Japanese
Starring: Akihiro Tomikawa, Fumio Watanabe, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tomoko Mayama
Do you watch The Mandalorian? Well it’s based on this amazing Japanese film. In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub’s origin. When an official Shogunate executioner is framed for disloyalty by the Yagyu clan, he wages a one-man war against them with only his infant son at his side.