
Plot
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Trailer
Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ogami Itto

Fumio Watanabe
Bizennokami Yagyû

Tomoko Mayama
Osen

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kurando Yagyû

Asao Uchida
Kenmotsu Sugito

Taketoshi Naitō
Ichige Gyobu

Yoshi Katō
Danjô Tonami

Yoshiko Fujita
Azami Ogami

Reiko Kasahara
Crazy Woman

Akihiro Tomikawa
Ogami Daigoro

Kōji Sekiyama
Kanbei

Teruo Matsuyama
Monnosuke

Shunya Wazaki
Horii

Michimaro Otabe

Saburo Date
Official Envoy

Ryūtarō Gomi

Kyōichi Satō

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Kōji Fujiyama

Jun Takigawa

Hisao Hamita
Shigami Tanba

Yukio Horikita

Tokio Oki

Tadashi Iwata

Yūsaku Terashima

Manabu Morita
Omi

Yūji Hamada

Hajime Koshikawa

Jun Fujikawa

Goro Kumon

Shōji Mori

Sumao Ishihara

Kôji Uehara

Tamotsu Fujiharu

Jun Soloni

Kanae Kobayashi
Bereaved Woman's Servant

Shinji Nunome

Iwao Kasumi

Kazuo Mortuchi

Kazuo Ōbayashi

Yoshumitsu Shimonura

Kazuyo Yanaka

Masami Kojomon

Chizu Kobayashi

Yutaka Nakamura

Akiji Kobayashi
Narrator

Yūnosuke Itō
Retsudô Yagyû

Jinichiro Ando