Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx is a 1972 film from Japan, directed by Kenji Misumi, running 81 minutes. reelscum files it under chanbara.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Director
- Kenji Misumi
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (47/100)
- Also known as
- Lone Wolf and Cub 2: Baby Cart at the River Styx · Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx · Babycart at the River Styx · Lone Wolf And Cub: Perambulator Of The River Of Sanzu
Defined in the glossary: Chanbara
The best of the series. A pram, a snowfield, and a small army that should have stayed home.
The second and finest Lone Wolf and Cub film, released the same year as the first. Ogami Itto is hunted across Japan by a clan of female ninja and the three Masters of Death, and the set pieces escalate toward a snowbound massacre that is one of the great action sequences of 70s cinema.
Kenji Misumi directs with a painter's eye and a butcher's enthusiasm. The blood is unreal, geysering black in the print, and the toddler in the pram remains improbably unbothered. This is where the series peaks.
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