Akihiro Tomikawa

In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the sort of wild movie he’d always wanted to: one in which Lone Wolf battles zombies and Daigoro’s baby cart zips improbably across an icy landscape on skis.

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

Balancing physical action with Buddhist musings on life and death, the most spiritual of the Lone Wolf and Cub films finds Ogami’s combat skills put to the test by five different warrior-messengers.

Ogami Itto and Daigoro are hired to kill Oyuki, a tattooed female assassin. Daigoro becomes lost and is found by Gunbei Yagyu, a vengeful rival samurai.

A sword-wielding warrior travels across Japan with his young son in tow, crossing paths with a prostitute in peril and a vicious group of yakuza.