In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Language
Japanese
Release Date
January 15, 1972
Cast
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ogami Itto
Fumio Watanabe
Bizennokami Yagyû
Tomoko Mayama
Osen
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kurando Yagyû
Asao Uchida
Kenmotsu Sugito
Taketoshi Naitō
Ichige Gyobu
Yoshi Katō
Danjô Tonami
Yoshiko Fujita
Azami Ogami
Reiko Kasahara
Crazy Woman
Akihiro Tomikawa
Ogami Daigoro
Kōji Sekiyama
Kanbei
Teruo Matsuyama
Monnosuke
Shunya Wazaki
Horii
Michimaro Otabe
Saburo Date
Official Envoy
Ryūtarō Gomi
Kyōichi Satō
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Kōji Fujiyama
Jun Takigawa
Hisao Hamita
Shigami Tanba
Yukio Horikita
Tokio Oki
Tadashi Iwata
Yūsaku Terashima
Manabu Morita
Omi
Yūji Hamada
Hajime Koshikawa
Jun Fujikawa
Goro Kumon
Shōji Mori
Sumao Ishihara
Kôji Uehara
Tamotsu Fujiharu
Jun Soloni
Kanae Kobayashi
Bereaved Woman's Servant
Shinji Nunome
Iwao Kasumi
Kazuo Mortuchi
Jinichiro Ando
Kazuo Ōbayashi
Yoshumitsu Shimonura
Kazuyo Yanaka
Masami Kojomon
Chizu Kobayashi
Yutaka Nakamura
Akiji Kobayashi
Narrator
Yūnosuke Itō
Retsudô Yagyû
Show Full Crew
Editing
Sound
Tsuchitarô Hayashi
Sound Recordist
Toru Kurashima
Sound Effects
Hideaki Sakurai
Original Music Composer
Directing
Writing
Production
Camera
Lighting
Crew