I can tell you seeing Sword of Vengeance on the big screen was worth all of their efforts. Kudos to the projection team at the best cinema in Edinburgh the Filmhouse, they took apart the projector and through the miracles of soldering and tweezers, managed to sort the problem. This was days before the film was to be shown. However, when they tested the print, the audio was out of sync. He decided to go down the private collectors route, and discovered a guy in Germany who owns all 6 films in the series, and had given them to a German label for the Blu-ray release. They told him if the print was shown, it would have to be burnt straight away. Just before the lights went down for the former, he told me they had almost given up on securing the film, because Japanese studios such as Toho are so protective of their legacy. The festival managed to secure 35mm prints of both Sword of Vengeance and the rare Golgo 13, starring Ken Takakura. He almost immediately said ‘If you thought last year was good, wait until this year. I bumped into an acquaintance I’d known for many years, an actor and senior programmer called Niall Fulton, who the previous year had put on a Walter Hill retrospective. In February of this year, I attended a drinks function for the Edinburgh Film Festival, which takes place in June. “Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance” Japanese Theatrical PosterĬast: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomoko Mayama, Fumio Watanabe, Keiko Fujita, Reiko Kasahara, Yunosuke Ito, Shun’ya Wazaki
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