Exploitation films

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

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

Goyokin

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

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

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

Zatoichi: The Tale of Zatoichi

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

Sword of Doom

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

Lady Snowblood

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

Samurai Rebellion

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

Shogun Assassin

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

Harakiri

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