Framed to Perfection XIX

KOZURE OKAMI MEIFUMADO (1973)

Director: Kenji Misumi

Cinematographer: Fujio Morita

One for the family photo album!

There aren’t many intense hero shots featuring both father and son in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, so this stood out to me. Sure, it’s hardly great art or worthy of much discussion, but dammit if they both don’t just look totally badass!

It’s also the “suiting up” moment before both men ride out to experience one of the best close-quarter fights we’ll ever get to see, that is until Die Hard with a Vengeance’s elevator shootout and Goldeneye’s radio telescop engine room punch-up.

Savour it!

This film’s centrepiece sequence is, of course, Daigoro standing up to clueless authority, at the expense of his own poor bottom. I would have captured a screenshot from this scene, but, due to certain wardrobe choices, I don’t think it would have been very wise to post it here.

I have only one more film to go in this boxset, then surely I shall move onto some other ultraviolent crapfest.

Do stay in touch, darlings.

Toodles!