Lone Wolf and Cub White Heaven in Hell

Starring:Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi, Goro Mutsumi, Daigo Kusano, Jiro Miyaguchi, Renji Ishibashi, Ritsu Ishiyama, Chizu Kobayashi, Gakuya Morita, Koichi Sato (II), Koji Fujiyama, Yoshiro Takee, Yo Nishida, Riki Harada, Masataka Wakao, Mayumi Yamaguchi, Shoji Mori, Yasuno Sakai, Koji Kanda
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Studio: ANIMEIGO
Product Type: DVD

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too much hollywood influence
White blah-blah in hell, the one Lone Wolf/Cub not to see
A bloodbath of carnage.
Works for me...
The sixth and final film in the "Lone Wolf and Cub" series

Lone Wolf and Cub - White Heaven in Hell
Starring: Tomisaburo Wakayama , Akihiro Tomikawa , Junko Hitomi , Goro Mutsumi , and Daigo Kusano
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Manufacturer: ANIMEIGO
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ASIN: B0001Z934S
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Customer Reviews:

too much hollywood influence.......2007-05-12

got some ideas from the '007' and 'shaft', even the sound track music scores were too modern 'shaft' alike. lost the original taste and blended into a too far-fetched dramatized stunt showmanship. cart carried the cute child got machine gun and mechanic blades also got a some ideas from the scenes of 'ben hurr'. now in this last segment, even black magic witchcraft resurrected the dead corpses crawling around in the water, dirt and the snow. walking dead still got fresh blood, ain't it a bit too ridiculous?
this 'lone wolf and cub' series suffered a lot to the bad influence from the hollywood. although the wolf was still a lone wolf, the cub still the cute little one, all the scenario and plot of the storyline became outlandish. a waste of the great actor who played the lone wolf with such rarity of pure force and swordsmanship. a final curtain call ended in a quite bad western taste.

White blah-blah in hell, the one Lone Wolf/Cub not to see.......2005-05-27

In this sixth (but not final) installment of the movie series, what we get is little story and too much senseless action (with a sprinkling of hot tub sex). This is a very disappointing film. Although it is the last such LWnC movie from this creative team, it does not end the storyline (with 28 volumes in the manga series, we probably would have needed another 3-7 films). So the patient, constant viewer gets instead a hack-and-slash film of mid-caliber.

The ending -- an over-extending action sequence set on a snowy slope -- is very unsatisfying; so are the characters: unlike other LWnC films, we do not get to meet any new incidental characters. As a result, the film is less about "Edo" soceity (which one cannot argue is the secondary if not primary goal of the manga team) and instead just a big showdown waiting to happen...waiting, waiting to happen. The film is way too long and its pacing is horrible.

I think the fault with the film lies in these two things:
1) the writers/filmmakers chose poor source material. The "five wheel" assassin team denies Itto and son the chance to mingle with regular Edo joes. As a result, you do not get as I argued the best part of the series: the rich detail of Edo life.
2) the filmmakers must have been overwhelmed with James Bond films like "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and whatnot with their decision to make this movie "samurai on skis". After the first few minutes of fighting on the snow, I was thinking "Enough already, I get it: samurai can be badass even on slippery surfaces!"

Watch the first five and forever skip this sixth installment.

A bloodbath of carnage........2005-05-24

There's a twenty-two page text introduction on the LONE WOLF AND CUB: WHITE HELL dvd. It explains a lot - what one in Japan calls their mother and father and respected elder. What one used to call their mother and father and respected elder. It also contains a capsule history of Japan, from the eighth century or so onward. In all, a fairly imposing prelude.
Fortunately, all my study went for nought. It turned out, after all, that I didn't need to know the proper and improper use of the term `sensei,' or the history of the city of Edo. Best yet, inadvertently starting this six-part series at part six didn't present many problems, either. WHITE HELL is a wonderfully uncomplicated and undemanding action movie. I enjoyed it very much without fussing over minute details.
Ogami Itto, the Lone Wolf of the title, travels about pushing a baby carriage containing his son, Cub. The time is winter, the carriage is on skis rather than wheels, and it's armed and plated in a manner that would do a James Bond movie proud. Itto's sworn enemy Retsudo enlists a series of champions to kill Lone Wolf, and presumably Cub, as well. These highly efficient killers include Retsudo's daughter, a knife-wielding cutie, and three young men who are buried underground for 42 days and emerge as burrowing, fast moving, earth worm-ish assassins. As Retsudo exclaims when he cracks the men out of their clay pots - `Innocent people will die. There will be a bloodbath of carnage and a tempest of death!' What more could an action movie fan ask for?
The largest ski attack ever filmed, I suppose. This fun, escapist movie has that, too. Strongly recommended.

Works for me..........2004-12-08

Great stuff. I have been looking for these films for years, now I can get them easily. Lucky for you too.

There is nothing like Lone Wolf and Cub, it has all the elements that I like in a martial srts flick. This is a no-holds-barred type of film, full of bloody slashing and hacking but always done with a sense of style.

Get the entire series.

The sixth and final film in the "Lone Wolf and Cub" series.......2004-11-17

"Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell" ("Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro") is the sixth and final film adapted from the "Lone Wolf and Cub" manga written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Goseki Kojima. Koike wrote the screenplays for the first four films, but Tstuomu Nakamura did the script for the last two, which might explain why the climax of the finale seems to be more appropriate for a James Bond film rather than a samurai assassin film. There were several interesting issues of "Lone Wolf and Cub" that dealt with winter settings, but Nakamura does not really avail himself of them for this script. As always, it is interesting to see how familiar stories are brought together in the film, which was directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

This time there are four distinct acts to the action. First, Retsudo Yagyu (Minoru Ohki) is sending his daughter and last child, Lady Kaori (Junko Hitomi), who has perfected the falling dagger technique, after Lone Wolf and Cub (#79 "Sayaka"). Meanwhile, Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama) has brought Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa) for a final visit to the grave of his mother (#58 "A Poem for the Grave") before they make their way for Edo. On the road they will encounter Lady Kaori. Second, assassins who have buried alive are reborn as divine spirits (#77 "Incense for the Living") and sent after Lone Wolf and Cub. Their strategy is to kill everybody whom father and son have contact with on the road to Meifumado (#76 "Five Wheels of the Yagyu"), which means a lot of innocents are getting killed until Ogami Itto goes off into the wildnerness to force the Yagyu's hand. Third, Retsudo attempts to persuade his illegitimate son, Hyoei (Isao Kimura) to kill Ogami Itto. When he refuses, Retsudo tries to get Hyoei's sister, Lady Azusa (Mayumi Yamaguchi) to persuade him to act. Hyoei agrees, seeing it as an opportunity to take over the Yagyu clan. However, Ogami Itto must first deal with the cancellation of an assassination because of the threat of the Yagyu (#80 "Clouds of Silk"). Then he faces Hyoei and forces him to issue a challenge for a duel (#67 "The Hojiro Yaguy") and Retsudo is forced to deal with Hoyei's final effort to usurp his position.

The final act is where this film goes off the rails. Although the setting is similar to when father and son first made their way through the snow covered mountains (#64, "The Moon in the East, the Sun in the West") the story gets well beyond watch the baby cart being used as a sled. We are talking samurai on skis, ninjas on skis, and samurai on sleds. At least Ogami Itto does not get on skis, but he does some serious sledding. It is just that all of the shots of samurai swinging swords while jumping over the camera on skies get to be a bit much, and when a horde of them (including Retsudo), ski (or sled) right by their prey we were definitely into shark jumping territory. The bad news is that this is not a fitting end to the cinematic saga of Lone Wolf and Cub, but the good news is that are a dozen more volumes of the original manga as published by Dark Horse Comics that will get you to the true end of the story (although clearly they did not know this sixth film would be the final one in the series).

I know all of these movies were edited and dubbed into "Shogun Assassin" in 1980, but I must insist that you take the high road and avoid that butchery in favor of the original sextet of films. In order these are: (1) "Kozure Ôkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance," 1972); (2) "Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx," 1972); (3) "Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades," 1972); (4) "Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: In Peril," 1972); (5) "Kozure Ôkami: Meifumando" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Land of Demons," 1973); and (6) "Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro" ("Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell," 1974). The above list does not include literal translations of each Japanese title but rather the name given their most recent U.S. releases (I believe the original U.S. releases in the 1970s just numbered these as "Swords of Vengeance" I-VI). The literal translation of this sixth film in the series would be "Lone Wolf and Cub: Go to Hell, Daigoro," so you can see why that leaves a bit to be desired.

Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart White Heaven in Hell

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Lone Wolf and Cub Baby Cart White Heaven in Hell

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Product Description

This is the last adventure of Lone Wolf (Ogami Itto) and his Cub (Daigoro). Having failed in all his previous attempts to destroy Ogami, the evil lord of the Yagyu clan recruits his blood-thirsty daughter. Together with the supernatural warriors, these are his most powerful weapons. If they fail, Retsudo plans to release the might of the entire Yagyu army. Ogami and Daigoro stand at the crossroads to hell.

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