Bounty Hunter Trilogy Blu-ray Radiance Killer’s Mission Fort of Death

Blood-spattering samurai action crossed with Spaghetti Westerns and 007! Introducing Radiance Film's Limited Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray collection for The Bounty Hunter Trilogy, which includes 1969’s Killer’s Mission and The Fort of Death, as well as 1972’s Eight Men to Kill. Before he made his name in Lone Wolf and Cub, Tomisaburo Wakayama starred in this triptych of violent samurai spectacles that draw on James Bond and Spaghetti Westerns for inspiration yet feature the familiar style and blood-spattering action of the period. Wakayama stars as Doctor and spy-for-hire Shikoro Ichibei who in Shigehiro Ozawa’s (The Streetfighter) Killer’s Mission is hired to prevent the sale of firearms to a hostile Shogun. In Eiichi Kudo’s (13 Assassins) follow-up, The Fort of Death, Ichibei is hired on a Seven Samurai-style mission to protect a village of farmers from a ruthless Lord. The final film sees Ozawa return for Eight Men to Kill, in which Ichibei is hired to recover a cache of stolen gold from