Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict explained

Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict(Kozure Ōkami: Sono Chiisaki Te ni)
Director:	Akira Inoue^[1] ^[2]
Producer:	Kazuo Koike
Based On:	Lone Wolf and Cub, Manga
Music:	Masahiro Kawasaki
Cinematography:	Saburo Fujiwara
Studio:	Shochiku,Kazuo Koike office
Distributor:	Shochiku
Runtime:	119 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Akira Inoue.^{[3] [4]} It is based on Kazuo Koike's manga series Lone Wolf and Cub. Masakazu Tamura played Ogami by Koike Kazuo's strong request.^{[5] [6] [7]} Koike produced the film on the theme of parent-child love, not action as with past Lone Wolf and Cub films and television drama series.^{[8] [9]}

Plot

Set in Japan during an unspecific year of the Edo period, Ogami Ittō, a samurai serving the Tokugawa shogun as "Kogi Kaishaku-nin" (official executioner) is the target of a Yagyu clan conspiracy, masterminded by Shogunate councilor Yagyu Bizen, to have him dismissed and replaced with a member of their own family. When evidence appears to show that he is plotting against the Shogun, a Yagyu retainer kills Ogami's wife when she tries to intervene, for which Ogami cuts him and the accompanying retainers down. Ogami is convicted of treason, and the Bushido code requires him to commit seppuku; instead, he defies the Tokugawa Shogun's orders and picks up the sword with his young son against his enemies, determined to expose the Yagyu conspiracy, eventually leading to a final duel against Yagyu Retsudo, leader of the Ura-Yagyu clan and Bizen's brother.^{[10] [11]}

Cast

• Masakazu Tamura as Ogami Ittō^{[12] [13]}
• Tatsuya Nakadai as Yagyū Retsudō
• Yushi Shoda as Ogami Daigoro
• Isao Hashizume as Yagyū Bizen (Retsudō's younger brother)
• Shima Iwashita as Oharu (Prostitute)
• Kimiko Ikegami as Yagyū Chizuro (Yagyū Hyōgo's wife)
• Renji Ishibashi as Matsudaira Suo no Kami
• Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Nitani Kenmotsu
• Hiroyuki Okita as Yagyū Hyōgo
• Hirotarō Honda^[10] as Samurai (executed by Ogami Ittō)
• Yūko Kotegawa as Ogami Asami (Ogami Itto's Wife)
• Tōru Masuoka as Yagyū Kurando
• Junkichi Orimoto as Rōjū of Tokugawa shogunate
• Kunie Tanaka as Oshou
• Mayumi Wakamura as Yagyū Nanao (Retsudō's daughter)
• Shiho Fujimura as Shino

Other Credits

• Executive producer
  • Yoshinobu Nishioka
• Art Direction by
  • Yoshinobu Nishioka

Release

Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict was released theatrically in Japan on 6 February 1993 where it was distributed by Shochiku.

Awards

• Japanese Academy Awards

• • Best Supporting Actor: Kunie Tanaka^{[14] [15]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: その小さき手に. 映画db. 24 December 2020.
2. Web site: 井上昭. 日本映画監督. 24 December 2020.
3. Web site: Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict. Kinema Junpo. 11 January 2021.
4. Web site: その小さき手に . allcinema. 10 August 2017.
5. Web site: 田村正和 追悼：テレビ界の大スターとしての栄光の奥に秘められた映画俳優としての素養. シネマプラス. ja. 11 December 2021.
6. Web site: Kozure Ōkami: Sono chiisaki te ni. 一般社団法人 日本映画製作者連盟. 10 August 2017.
7. Web site: 田村正和祭り」美剣士・腕下主丞の「乾いて候」から「子連れ狼」まで！マネのできない正和的世界. 時代劇専門チャンネル. 24 October 2018.
8. 子連れ狼 その小さき手に Official pamphlet P.4
9. Web site: 「子連れ狼」なぜハリウッドでリメイク？ 血みどろの殺陣シーンでカルト的人気. バズフィード. 24 December 2020.
10. Web site: Kozure Ōkami: Sono chiisaki te ni. Agency for Cultural Affairs 日本映画情報システム. 23 November 2018.
11. Web site: 子連れ狼 その小さき手に. 松竹. 24 December 2020.
12. Web site: 田村正和x香取信吾. テレビ朝日 smastation. 24 December 2020.
13. Web site: 時代劇『子連れ狼』がハリウッドで映画化！ 『ワイルド・スピード』の人気アクション監督がメガホン. 2 April 2012. gqjapan. 24 December 2020.
14. Web site: Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict. kotobank. 24 December 2020.
15. Web site: http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=17 . ja:第 17 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品. 2020-12-16. ja. Japan Academy Prize.