Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance/BluRay
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
USA
- Region A
- Studio: Criterion
- Released: 2016
- Blu-Ray Transfer Rating:
- 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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- Region B UK version (March 2017): Buy from Amazon.de | From Amazon.com | From Amazon.co.uk
Germany
- Label: Rapid Eye Movies
- Release date: December 2014
- Special Edition. Out of print
- 3 Discs, all 6 movies.
- Japanese with German subtitles
- Buy now: From Amazon.de
