Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

About Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

Buichi Saitō's Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril is a 1972 thriller film. Its themes are samurai, jidaigeki, chambara, and chanbara.

Tomisaburō Wakayama takes the lead as Ogami Itto, Yoichi Hayashi as Yagyu Gunbei, Michi Azuma as Oyuki, and Akihiro Tomikawa as Ogami Daigoro. Released in December 1972, it runs 81 minutes.

The screenplay is by Kazuo Koike. It streams on Criterion Channel and HBO Max in the United States.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades, and Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell make useful companions to Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril, all filed under assassin. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 160 votes.