Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
Ogami Ittō, once the Shogun's official executioner, wanders feudal Japan as an assassin for hire, pushing his infant son Daigorō ahead of him in a wooden cart fitted with hidden blades. The Awa clan hires him to kill a defector before the man can sell the secret of their indigo dyeing process to the Shogunate; the target travels under the guard of the three Hidari brothers, killers each armed with his own exotic weapon. At the same time the Yagyū, the clan that destroyed Ogami's house and set him on this road, send a band of female ninja led by Sayaka to finish him. The second film in the six-part Lone Wolf and Cub series, directed by Kenji Misumi from the Koike and Kojima manga, it is a Japanese chanbara of stylised, bloody swordplay.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx is a 1972 action, adventure and drama film. It was made in Japan. Its listed language is Japanese. The runtime is 81 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 4 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1970s (2,406 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 29.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
