Portland Public Library

Lone wolf and cub, Toho Co. Ltd

Collective title from containerOriginally released as motion pictures 1972-1974, 1980Includes 7 films and their trailersSpecial features: New 2K digital restorations of all six films; high-definition presentation of Shogun assassin, a 1980 English-dubbed reedit of the first two Lone wolf and cub films; 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 documetnary about the makin of the series; new interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired the ones depicted in the manga and films; new interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six 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

multicolored

monaural

00715515188616

other

Five-DVD special edition.

9781681432236

videodisc

Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa

5 videodiscs (506 min.), DVD video, sound, color, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet + 1 folded sheet.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)962088423

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (aspect ratio 2.40:1); Dolby Digital

715515188616

CC2695D -- Criterion Collection (set)CC2695D-1 -- Criterion Collection (disc 1)CC2695D-2 -- Criterion Collection (disc 2)CC2695D-3 -- Criterion Collection (disc 3)CC2695D-4 -- Criterion Collection (disc 4)CC2695D-5 -- Criterion Collection (disc 5)

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