Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (Japanese: 子連れ狼　地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎 or Kozure Ōkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro, literally Wolf with Child in Tow: Let's Go To Hell, Daigoro!) is the final entry in a series of six Japanese martial arts film

Martial arts film

Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...

s based on the long-running Lone Wolf and Cub

Lone Wolf and Cub

is a manga created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. First published in 1970, the story was adapted into six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, a television series starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, and is widely recognized as an important and influential work.Lone Wolf and Cub...

manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 series about Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied by his young son, Daigoro.

Plot

The swordsman Ogami Ittō is confronted by a secretive branch of the Yagyū clan that practices black magic, including the ability to burrow through the earth. He encounters Kaori, a female expert with knives. And there's Hyouei, an illegitimate son of Yagyū Retsudo who kills anyone Ittō and Daigoro come into contact with. It culminates in a final battle between Ittō and the combined clan groups under Retsudo on a snow-capped mountain in northern Japan, in which the baby cart becomes a sled. Ittō defeats the entire army, shooting, stabbing, slashing, dismembering, and beheading the entire army. But the one-eyed Retsudo again gets away, vowing to kill Ittō another time.

Cast

• Tomisaburo Wakayama
  Tomisaburo Wakayama
  , born Masaru Okumura, was a Japanese actor, best known for playing Ogami Ittō, the scowling, 17th century ronin warrior in the six Lone Wolf and Cub samurai movies.-Biography:...
  
   as Ogami Ittō
• Akihiro Tomikawa as Daigoro
• Junko Hitomi as Yagyū Kaori
• Isao Kimura
  Isao Kimura
  , also known as Ko Kimura, was a Japanese actor. He appeared in several films directed by Akira Kurosawa. The first was Stray Dog as Yusa the criminal...
  
  as Yagyū Hyouei
• Minoru Ohki as Yagyū Retsudo

Kills

Ogami Ittō has 150 on screen kills in this film, the most of any individual character in a movie..

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