Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Buichi Saitō · 1972
The fourth of six 1970s samurai films adapting Kazuo Koike’s manga, Baby Cart in Peril follows disgraced executioner Ogami Ittō and his son Daigoro as they pursue a tattooed assassin while navigating renewed conflict with the Yagyū clan. Directed by Buichi Saitō and shot by Kazuo Miyagawa, it sustains the series’ stark visual language and moral economy — where violence is procedural, parenthood is tactical, and survival is measured in mud, tattoos, and the careful push of a baby cart.