Shogun Assassin 3: Slashing Blades of Carnage
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| Directed by | Buichi Saito |
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| Screenplay by | Kazuo Koike |
| Based on | A manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima |
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| Music by | Eiken Sakurai |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Edited by | Toshio Taniguchi |
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Katsu Production
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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81 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (子連れ狼 親の心子の心 Kozure Ōkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro, literally "Wolf with Child in Tow: The Heart of a Parent, the Heart of a Child") is the fourth in a series of six Japanese martial arts films based on the long-running Lone Wolf and Cub manga series about Ogami Ittō, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied by his young son, Daigoro.
The film has also been released as Shogun Assassin 3: Slashing Blades of Carnage, the second sequel to Shogun Assassin.
Oyuki, a tattooed female assassin – the renegade member of a daimyō's personal bodyguard detail – is killing every man that is sent up against her. Along with her deadly use of the short blade, she strips to the waist while fighting to reveal elaborate tattoos on her chest and back. On her front is a kintarō grasping her left breast. A portrait of a mountain witch covers her back. She then cuts off her victims' topknots, or chonmage, which brings dishonor to the dead man and his family.
Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former shōgun's executioner, or Kogi Kaishakunin, is hired to kill Oyuki. He tracks down the tattoo artist, who explains that she was a "fine" woman who did not scream as he dug into her flesh with his needles.
Meanwhile, Ittō's 3-year-old son, Daigoro, has grown restless waiting by the baby cart his father uses to trundle him about in. He goes exploring and finds a pair of performing clowns on the street. When the clowns finish their performance, Daigoro follows them, hoping to see more. But the clowns shoo him away, saying it's time to go home. Now, Daigoro has wandered too far. He is lost, and has become separated from his father.
Agents of the Ogamis' mortal enemies, the Yagyū, are never far away. A procession of them, accompanied by the sound of gongs and loud shrieks, sends Daigoro into hiding. Ittō must give up his search rather than risk an entanglement with the men, so he travels on alone.
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