Lone Wolf With Cub Baby Cart Machine Gun

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

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In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

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Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death, Lone Wolf and Cub 3: Baby Cart to Hades, Lobo Solitário 3: Contra Os Ventos da Morte, Lupine Wolf, Lone Wolf & Cub 3: Der Wind des Todes, Lightning Swords of Death, Baby Cart 3: Dans la terre de l'ombre, Japango - Henker des Shogun 2

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Three films into this series...three genre masterpieces. Unless the remaining entries take a shocking nosedive in quality, I'm beginning to think the Lone Wolf and Cub movies may end up being my favorite film series of all time.

"Daigoro, we have entered the crossroads to Hell."

Wandering assassin (and former shogun's executioner) Ogami Itto is again portrayed with scowling fierceness by the incomparable Tomisaburo Wakayama, as he travels across the land with his young son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa). Coming across the bloody aftermath of a rape of a mother and daughter, Itto crosses paths with another samurai named Kanbei, fantastically played by Go Kato ("Samurai Rebellion"). Kanbei is travelling with the three perpetrators of the crime, all low-class fighters for…
Living by death. Being a true samurai. Even if you've become nothing more than a mercenary, do you still have honor?

Ogami is back at it again, this time clearing prostitutes debts, gaining the respect and love of a yakuza leader, meeting a kindred spirit, and massacring a entire army with the use of the most overpowered baby cart ever.

I've been neglecting the cinematography in this series. It's beyond stunning. The wide shots, great settings, use of camera tricks and editing, even if you cut out the violence and storyline you'd still have a visual masterpiece. What a terrific series.

It's definitely slower paced than the previous two, but I was engrossed by the characters and story it told. No complaints here, just great cinema.
"A true samurai is hard to find these days" -Torizo Koshio,

Lone Wolf is so fucking cool.

This is the best one in terms of action and the story is interesting and engaging. I love the spraying blood, I love the sword fighting, I love the decapitations, I love Cub's smile and generally violent demeanor. These movies really fit the tee when you're looking for violent and fun films with professed central philosophies. I just wish the sexual assault scenes weren't so explicit because they are uncomfortable and a tonal nightmare... why was this so common in the seventies?

The whole series is worth a watch so far.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I think this might be the best of the series. Misumi's vivisection of the so often celebrated unflinching moral code of the samurai is at its most clear and provocative, Ogami proves himself to be far more of a complex and ambigious force and there's a compelling antagonist in the form of Kanbei - the disgraced samurai turned mercenary just seeking an honourable death.

Also, the cart machine gun reveal in the final fight is pure cinema.
Itto: Puts sword through dudes head
Lil baby Diagoro: 😐

*Watches dad being tortured*
Daigoro: 😐

Itto: Slaughters dozens of people
Daigoro: 😐

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On another note, I found this to be the most interesting of the series so far. Itto's beliefs in predestination, which was always apparent, are put to use more effectively here, giving him a more substantial identity than the previous films did. The side characters are more interesting as well, they're less formulaic, making for fresher antagonists that bring with them unique dimensions and better stories.
Daigoro... We've entered the crossworads to Hell.
-Ogami Itto

The third film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series seems to offer action less often, but that doesn't mean it has less violence or a smaller body count. In fact this film possibly has a higher body count then the previous films. What aids in that, as if the violence wasn't already over the top, they throw in firearms and explosives to the mix for some entertaining results.

The reason the violence is parsed out more this time around is that the film has a more complex plot compared to the other films. We've all seen films that deal with the "Samurai Code" or "Way of the Warrior", but this…
I haven't really thought about the themes of the Lone Wolf and Cub series much, but I think the evisceration of these old codes of honor and all their hypocrisy is really well done, and emphasized here in Baby Cart to Hades.

Entry #3 is even more cruel and sexualised, delivering another unique story—more patiently paced—that climaxes with the series' first huge fight as Ogami faces off against a whole army.

His anti-hero nature continues to develop in his relationship with a prostitute/slave and an honor-obsessed samurai. Meanwhile, Diagoro continues to contrast the hyperviolence with his dewy view of the world around him. It's about as brilliantly written and staged as the first two. This series does not let up.
This bad boy caps off with a stunningly violent 200 vs 1 massacre. Love everything about it.
Ogami and Daigoro continue their journey on the Demon way to Hell as they take on assassins, Samurai, Yakuza and mercenaries and still have time save a down on her luck girl from a life of prostitution.

Baby Cart To Hades brings back more of the story that set off this journey and focuses heavily on themes of honor and code. It doesn't have the humor the last entry had but it isn't lacking in great action set pieces and a likable (or incredibly unlikable) assortment of baddies to dispatch.

Academy Award goes to the baby cart itself with its many concealed weapons including mini guns and shields, the OG James Bond vehicle.
Three decent movies in a role, and produced in subsequent order in the same year, must be something of a feet, specially at keeping each one feel different from one another, even maintaining the similar traces and elements that created the identity that the Lone Wolf and Cub saga created for itself thanks to the genius directing of master Kenji Misumi. Though Baby Cart to Hades gets argued by some as being one of the "weakest", especially in its more subdued approach, and specially coming from the carnage highlight of the franchise from the previous movie ( Baby Cart at the River Styx), but this won't be agreeing with none of that, as I this is yet another thrilling hypnotic…
53/100

Having apparently exhausted his visual creativity in the previous installment, Misumi retreats here to a more conventional alternation between stoic staredowns and frantic slicing. Feels like a movie Mel Gibson would love, what with the emphasis on noble masochism; this time, thankfully, Itto's sacrifice involves being brutally tortured in a prostitute's stead, rather than fucking the prostitute for a leering audience, as in Sword of Vengeance. The film's most effective element by far—a wary dance of mutual respect between Itto and the equally honorable but slightly less skilled Kanbei—gets introduced at the beginning, then shelved until the very end. Bit of a slog in between.
Listen, I know that these are pulpy exploitation films that feature a baby cart decked out with killing gadgets, but I get really annoyed with movies that use rape in such trivial ways where it's only there for shock value and to show certain guys are "bad guys." Not that I don't think sexual assault be depicted in film, but it needs to be depicted in such a way that is more than just a cheap trick for the hero to avenge.

Outside of this, Hades seems much flimsier than the previous two films. One gets the sense that the plot at this point is just spinning the baby cart wheels and the style is downright boring compared to the…