| Notes | Extras:
• New interview with Kazuo Koike, writer of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series and screenwriter on five of the films (11:39)
• Lame d’un père, l’âme d’un sabre, a 2005 documentary about the making of the series (52:24)
• New interview in which Sensei Yoshimitsu Katsuse discusses and demonstrates the real Suio-ryu sword techniques that inspired the ones depicted in the manga and films (13:34)
• New interview with biographer Kazuma Nozawa about Kenji Misumi, director of four of the six films (12:28)
• Silent documentary from 1939 about the making of samurai swords, with an optional new ambient score by Ryan Francis (30:37)
• Trailers
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay and film synopses by Patrick Macias |