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This engrossing and illuminating 53-minute documentary covers the making of the "Lone Wolf and Cub" films. Writer Kazuo Koike admits that it took him a long time to write the scripts and tells a funny story about how he would inform the director of one of the movies about certain scenes over the phone. Buichi Saito reveals that he was asked to direct the first film, but had to turn said offer down because he was booked to direct another picture. We also learn that star Tomisaburo Wakayama did a somersault in Koike's office in his pitch meeting with Koike, the extreme graphic violence came from the manga, casting O-Yuki in the fourth movie was very difficult, Wakayama played with and had lunch with child actor AkihiroTomikawa in order to form a close relationship with him, Wakayama was very strict about manners and etiquette, Wakayama almost collapsed during the shooting of the epic fight set piece set in a snow-covered mountain for the sixth film, and the series was abruptly curtailed by a TV series that aired right after the sixth and final movie was released. Recommended viewing for fans of the series.