Lone Wolf and Cub

Title: The Lone Wolf and Cub Series Year: 1972-1974 Director: Kenji Misumi, Takeichi Saito, Kuroda Yoshiyuki, Robert Houston Cast: Wakayama Tomisaburo, Synopsis: Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo) was formally retained the great title as the Shogun’s executioner. After discovering that his family is brutally slain (except his infant son Daigoro) by the retainers of an abolished clan whose leader Itto executed it’s revealed that this is a double cross lead by the dubious and scheming Yagyu Clan hoping to destabilize the Shogunate by framing Itto as a traitor. Banned from his title, and branded a traitor Itto gives his son a choice; follow his mother in the land of the dead, or join his father on the road to vengeance. Trucking his son around in a tricked out baby cart with spears, hidden daggers, and bullet proof shields Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro become travelling assassins;…

The currents bullied him from side to side, he slowed down and closed his eyes, smiling, his sharp teeth bared. The lone wolf soon found himself near the black rocks of the first mountain top, Maria. He dug the stinging snow farther in and fell in a small cave, enough for him to stretch out his limbs in comfort. The brown wolf lay his head in between his paws, beginning to fall into a deep sleep. He was exhausted of non-stop walking for days on end. He slowly drifted into sleep, away from the…

over the landscape and watch them in their world. One day, she came across a lone wolf who had been exiled from his pack. She witnessed him on the brink of starvation, struggling to survive in the wilds alone. She graciously blessed him with a small piece of her power, so he could manipulate the wind to make his life easier. In this process, his attributes evolved and he stood up on two legs in order that he could use his arms for bending the wind. He became a man, and a beast no longer. All…

associate them with ninjas, mainly due to their lack of education on the subject. (Newitz) After the Tokyo olympics, our fascination with Japanese and ninja culture somewhat died down. That is, until the 70’s when Bruce Lee reintroduced martial arts into American pop culture. The flood of “ninja” movies that became so popular during the 70’s were not all necessarily about ninjas. That’s not to say that none of these films were actually about ninjas, but most people associate the word “ninja”…