Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart At The River Styx

The second Lone Wolf and Cub film of 1972, Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart At The River Styx , has plenty of action and exploitative violence. In this film Ogami and Daigoro face a team of female assassins led by the seductive Sayaka (Kayo Matsuo), a band of ninja, and finally a trio of deadly brothers who are adept at unusual and deadly weapons (a claw, a spiked mace, and spiked iron gloves. Once again Kenji Misumi is at the helm and uses unusual shots and montages as well as a number of different perspectives of spurting blood coming from the victims of the orgy of violence. In this episode his young son sometimes aids his father in the carnage-he is learning these deadly skills early in life. There are essentially two stories taking place, in one the Shadoiw Yagyu clan continues to try and kill Ogami and he takes a job where he has to kill a an indigo dyer rather than let him teach the technique to the shogunate and puts his community as risk of losing their livelihood. Another action packed Lone Wolf and Cub adventure with plenty of gore and killing.