The Complete Lone Wolf & Cub Boxset (R2) in November

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