Lone Wolf and Cub

On the data. Six films in three years, and one story running straight through them. They come from a twenty eight volume manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, serialised from 1970 to 1976, and the films follow it closely. Watch them in order. Shogun Assassin is the thing that needs explaining. It is not another film. In 1980 an American producer bought the rights, took the first two films, cut them down to ninety minutes, dubbed them into English, threw out the score for synthesisers and had the child narrate the whole thing in voice over. Roughly eleven or twelve minutes of it comes from the first film and the rest from the second, and sources disagree on which. It is the version sampled in hip hop and quoted in Kill Bill, and it is a great many people's first encounter with this, but it is not how any of it actually plays. The English and Japanese titles do not map onto each other in any obvious way, so discs and streaming services regularly list the same film under two names. Going by the Baby Cart subtitles is the reliable method. The fourth film takes a long detour away from Ogami, which catches people out. Final Conflict from 1993 is a separate adaptation with a different lead actor, made to be about the father and son rather than the sword fighting. There are two television versions. The 1973 one ran seventy nine episodes across three series and went out in America as The Fugitive Samurai. The 2002 one has never been released commercially and no reliable episode count exists for it anywhere, so it is carried here with no number rather than a guess. A Hollywood remake was set up at Paramount around 2016 and has never happened. A 2025 film simply called Lone Wolf is a different thing entirely.

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