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Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict (Japanese: 子連れ狼 その小さき手に, Also known as Kozure Ōkami: Sono Chiisaki Te ni) is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Akira Inoue. It is based on Kazuo Koike's manga series Lone Wolf and Cub. Masakazu Tamura played Ogami by Koike Kazuo's strong request. 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.




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.




Cast


Masakazu Tamura as Ogami Ittō
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 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




References






External links


Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Lone Wolf and Cub
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict
• Kazuo Koike
• Masakazu Tamura
• Final Conflict (disambiguation)
• Tatsuya Nakadai
• Akira Inoue (film director)
• Hirotarō Honda
• Japan Academy Film Prize
• Samurai cinema