Episode #9 – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (子連れ狼：子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
子連れ狼：子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる [Kozure Ôkami: Ko o Kashi Udekashi Tsukamatsuru]
Directed by Kenji Misumi
Written by Kazuo Koike
Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
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.
Cast
Tomisaburô Wakayama – Itto Ôgami
Akihiro Tomikawa – Daigoro Ôgami
Fumio Watanabe – Sugito
Tomoko Mayama – Osen
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi – Junnai Matsuki
Asao Uchida – Goto
Tokio Oki – Retsudo Yagyu
