Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (子連れ狼　冥府魔道, Kozure Ōkami: Meifu Madō, "Wolf with Child in Tow: Crossroads to Hell") is the fifth entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub film series.
== Plot ==
On his travels on "the Demon Path in Hell", Ogami Itto is confronted by a series of five messengers who represent a clan wanting his services. Each assassin in turn administers a specific test of his abilities, and when bested gives Itto partial payment for the job and, as per his usual stipulation, discloses some of the "secrets and reasons" for the killing. By the time Itto has defeated all the messengers, he has been informed of a conspiracy to disguise a Daimyō's illegitimate female offspring as a prince and heir to the Kuroda clan, while the official offspring, a son, is kept imprisoned and concealed. A letter detailing the plot is being delivered by a high priest, who in reality is a "grass" or secret Ninja agent, to the shōgun, which would mean the dissolution of the clan, leaving retainers, samurai, and vassals without support—a disastrous end. Itto is to intercept the priest carrying the letter, kill him and retrieve the letter; the priest will be traveling under the protection of his arch-enemy, Yagyū Retsudō, further complicating the mission.
On a stopover at a town festival, Itto's three-year-old son, Daigoro, is separated from his father and has his own personal adventure when he gets mixed up with a notorious female pickpocket, named Oyo, being chased by constables. She gives him a stolen wallet to hold for her and asks him to promise not to tell anyone. Daigoro is arrested as her accomplice, but refuses to talk. The law officers publicly flog him in front of the townspeople, but Daigoro keeps his promise even after the pickpocket reveals herself and confesses. Finally the constables release him, impressed by his stoic courage and honor.
En route to intercept the priest, Ogami is contracted by a young woman, named Shiranui, to kill the retired lord, his concubine and their young daughter. Ogami, then in a skilled move, swims underwater to a boat containing the high priest and steals the letter. After securing the letter, he confronts the Daimyo and after a brutal battle with the Daimyo's Seven Bodyguards, kills him, his concubine and the young girl, fulfilling his contracts. In the final scene, as Ogami takes Daigoro with him on a boat to sail away, Shiranui appears and before committing Harakiri, that the official story will be that the retired lord committed Seppuku, thus preserving the clan and order and allowing the concealed heir to assume his rightful place.
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