- HD 1080
- Runtime: 83m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: ja
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kenji Misumi
- Stars: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Asao Uchida
- keywords: japan, assassin, samurai, chambara, jidaigeki, edo period, chanbara
- Production_studio: Katsu Production, TOHO
- providers: Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
- The Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance is featured in the top rankings of 1972
- #15 in Top Drama Movies of 1972
- #4 in Top Action Movies of 1972
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. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
