Films · reelscum

1972 · Japan · 81m

The best of the series. A pram, a snowfield, and a small army that should have stayed home.

1969 · Japan · 124m

A samurai returns to stop the massacre he could not prevent the first time. Shot in real snow.

1972 · Japan · 83m

A disgraced executioner and his toddler take the assassin's road. The pram has blades in it.

1962 · Japan · 95m

The blind masseur who is also the deadliest swordsman alive. The first of twenty-five-plus.

1966 · Japan · 122m

A swordsman with no morals and no motive cuts his way through the film. It stops rather than ends.

1973 · Japan · 97m

Where Kill Bill got most of its ideas, including the snow.

1967 · Japan · 128m

Kobayashi and Mifune against feudal authority again. It builds slowly and then it does not stop.

1980 · Japan/USA · 85m

Two Lone Wolf and Cub films chopped into one English dub. A grindhouse legend regardless.

1962 · Japan · 135m

A ronin asks to commit suicide in a lord's courtyard. What follows dismantles the whole code.