Eureka are going to release a remastered box set of
The Lone Wolf and Cub films:
From
DVD Times
Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of The Complete Lone Wolf & Cub Boxset on 16th November 2009 priced at £49.99 RRP. Based on the popular manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, this set brings the Lone Wolf and Cub series together with Shogun Assassin, officially licensed from Toho, fully uncut and freshly remastered for this release. Shogun Assassin is the first two Lone Wolf instalments re-edited into a single film for the American market back in 1980.
The films included in this set are:
Sword of Vengeance (1972, Kenji Misumi) 84 minutes
Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972, Kenji Misumi) 82 minutes
Baby Cart to Hades (9172, Kenji Misumi) 89 minutes
Baby Cart in Peril (1972, Buichi Saito) 81 minutes
Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973, Kenji Misumi) 90 minutes
White Heaven in Hell (1974, Yoshiyuki Kuroda) 84 minutes
Shogun Assassin (1980, Robert Houston) 86 minutes
Features include:
Freshly remastered, anamorphic, original aspect ratio transfers
Newly translated optional English subtitles
Original Japanese theatrical trailers for each film
Liner notes for each film by Japanese film scholar Tom Mes (midnighteye.com)
New packaging based on original Japanese poster design