Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance/BluRay

USA

• Region A
• Studio: Criterion
• Released: 2016
• Blu-Ray Transfer Rating:
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The Films

• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart at The River Styx
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart To Hades
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart in Peril
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Babycart In The Land of Demons
• Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
• BONUS FEATURE: Shogun Assassin: High-definition presentation of the 1980 English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films
• Special Features New 2K digital restorations of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays • New interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series and screenwriter on five of the films • Lame d’un père, l’âme d’un sabre, a 2005 documentary about the making of the series • New interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired those in the manga and films • New interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about filmmaker Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six Lone Wolf and Cub films • Silent documentary from 1937 about the making of samurai swords, with an optional new ambient score by Ryan Francis • Trailers • New English subtitle translations • PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film synopses by Japanese pop culture writer Patrick Macias

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Germany

• Label: Rapid Eye Movies
• Release date: December 2014
• Special Edition. Out of print
• 3 Discs, all 6 movies.
• Japanese with German subtitles
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