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.
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Tomisaburō Wakayama Fumio Watanabe Tomoko Mayama Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Asao Uchida Taketoshi Naitô Yoshi Katō Keiko Fujita Reiko Kasahara Akihiro Tomikawa Kôji Sekiyama Teruo Matsuyama Shunya Wazaki Michimaro Otabe Saburo Date Ryūtarō Gomi Kyôichi Satô Hiroshi Hasegawa Kōji Fujiyama Jun Takigawa Hisao Hamita Yukio Horikita Tokio Oki Tadashi Iwata Yūsaku Terashima Manabu Morita Yūji Hamada Hajime Koshikawa Jun Fujikawa Goro Kumon Shōji Mori Sumao Ishihara Kôji Uehara Tamotsu Fujiharu Jun Soloni Kanae Kobayashi Shinji Nunome Iwao Kasumi Kazuo Mortuchi Jinichiro Ando Kazuo Ōbayashi Yoshumitsu Shimonura Kazuyo Yanaka Masami Kojomon Chizu Kobayashi Yutaka Nakamura Akiji Kobayashi Yūnosuke Itō
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