Thanks to reader Steve C. for requesting this week’s review. As always, for instructions on how to request the next review for this feature (to run in two weeks) see the bottom of this post.
As a moviegoer, I’ve long operated under the belief that “the more you see, the more you need to see.” I’ve often found that the great movies are almost never self-contained, but rather lead me to other great- or at least interesting- movies. One thing that this Reviews by Request feature has been good for so far is to turn me on to some movies I might otherwise have not considered, be they the story of a thinking dog or a British war epic. By contrast, I was planning on seeing this week’s requested film eventually. Aside from Kurosawa’s work, I’m pretty under-versed in Japanese samurai dramas, but I’ve always planned to catch up with the genre sooner or later. And one can’t really get very far in the samurai genre without seeing any of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Thanks to reader Steve C., I finally had an excuse to get off my butt and watch the first film in the series, Sword of Vengeance, and I’m glad I did. Thanks, Steve!
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