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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
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Original name: 子連れ狼 三途の川の乳母車
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Style:
bloody, grindhouse, perverse, atmospheric, stylized, splatter, manga, exciting, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
year 1972
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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