Review of Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) by Pierluigi P — 18 Sep 2010

My knowledge in japanese samurai films is a bit narrow, but I'll take the chance to draw a parallelism between east and west cinema that could sound blasphemous or stupid to somebody who knows more about it.

But I suppose, if westerns had John Ford as a traditionalist filmmaker and Sergio Leone as a revolutioner who shattered that sanitized and mythic image and made it dirty and unheroic, I could apply that same logic to samurai films of Akira Kurosawa and then to what Kenji Misumi accomplished in this first chapter.

I guess that shallow explanation could serve a newcomer to picture what kind of brilliant and bloody action film they'll find here.