http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174826/
This movie stars two really great Japanese actors, Tamura Masakazu and Nakadai Tatsuya. I first saw Tamura in a TV rendition of the character made famous by Ichikawa Raizo, Nemuri Kiyoshiro (Sleepy Eyes of Death). He does a lot of TV series, too. Nakadai is about 10 years older and made his mark in great movies like Seven Samurai and Sword of Doom, and later in Ran and Kagemusha.
Tomisaburo Wakayama is THE Lone Wolf of the Baby Cart series and very hard to beat.
This current version was made for TV in 1993 and is a cleaned up version. The ladies dont' throw themselves naked at Lone Wolf, and the blood and heads splitting in half are kept to a minimum.
The child who plays Daigoro his son, is very cute. I loved seeing Nakadai; he has the most memorable eyes. Tamura plays a very classy Executioner.
Koike Kazuo wrote this story and it later was a manga. A live action movie is being made this year. His other manga, turned anime, was Crying Freeman. The live action version of that manga also had some good fight scenes.
I give this movie 3.5/5 acorns.
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