Fifth in the series and it seemed a little tired but maybe that was just me or the fact it came after the rather special previous film Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril directed by Buichi Saito filling in for regular man Kenji Misumi. Either way this is slightly longer than the first three and has a rather pedantic beginning with five men to be dispatched and then drifting rather before coming back for the usual spectacular finale. There is variety here with street scenes and festival goings on so nothing really to complain about and the violence when it comes is as crunching and bloody as ever.