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Shogun Assassin
1981
Lone Wolf, a shogun master, turns against lone wolf, his faithful head-cutting samurai servant. Vengeance forces into battle against the shogun, the shogun's son, and a host of shogun Ninja warriors. Read more
| Starring | Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki, Akiji Kobayashi |
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| Director | Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, World Cinema |
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Shogun Assassin
Lone Wolf, a shogun master, turns against lone wolf, his faithful head-cutting samurai servant. Vengeance forces into battle against the shogun, the shogun's son, and a host of shogun Ninja warriors.
| Starring | Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki, Akiji Kobayashi, Shin Kishida, Masahiro Tomikawa |
|---|---|
| Director | Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston |
| Studio | VIPCO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 21 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Feb 2000 Production year: 1981 |
| Format | DVD |
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Dubbed and edited for American consumption from the first two films in the Japanese series featuring Lone Wolf, a comic-book character and the hero of some of the goriest martial arts films, it concentrates on the violence and diminishes its original sour
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This started screen life in Japan in 1972 as a Kenji Misumi samurai sword actioner with the wonderful export title of... read more on Time Out
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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Stylish but bloody and violent
In the early 1970s, a series of five 'Babycart' films were made in Japan, based on a Manga comic strip about Lone Wolf and Cub, a samurai of high rank who falls out of favour with authority and wanders through feudal Japan with his young son in a baby cart, offering his services as an assassin while his enemies try to kill him. This film, 'Shogun Assassin', is a US version composed of re-edited scenes from the first two films and dubbed with a script ccontaining a greatly simplified plot. It's superb as it is, but to get the full impact, rent the entire original Japanese 'Babycart' series, now available in the UK. 'Shogun Assassin' was banned in the UK for some 20 years after being condemned as a 'video nasty' in the tabloid press circa 1983, but is now legal. And a good thing, too.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Brilliant film, a world class sumurai hack and slash movie. This was the first movie to show all the gore of films, this film changed the film scene for life.
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Shogun Assassin
Lone Wolf, a shogun master, turns against lone wolf, his faithful head-cutting samurai servant. Vengeance forces into battle against the shogun, the shogun's son, and a host of shogun Ninja warriors....
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