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Shogun Assassin Reviews

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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
Director	Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston
Genres	Action/Adventure, World Cinema

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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
- 30227
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:38
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  - 1
  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 ... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London, UK
  - 30 Apr 2004 at 22:02
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- - 0
  - 0
  Pointless slaughter
  
  Senseless, characterless, almost plot-less, orange blood stained film that doesn't do any justice to sword fighting. Acting is very poor and characters tend... read more »
  
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- 1045730
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Korgull
  - 7 reviews
  - 28 Sep 2011 at 15:16
- - 0
  - 0
  Samurai film out of context
  
  The experience for me was much more enjoyable than the actual content, hence the 5 stars.
  
  The film in itself is cut and dubbed to the point of being ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 28 Sep 2011 at 11:14
- - 1
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  I enjoyed it
  
  I watched this as I read in another review that Shogun Assassin was mentioned in Kill Bill.
  
  If so, it was very kind of the director to reference the ... read more »
  
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- - C1LS56
  - 155 reviews
  - Tunbridge Wells
  - 20 Feb 2011 at 07:35
- - 0
  - 0
  Not as good as I had hoped
  
  After reading the reviews I was expecting this film to be extra good. It is full of blood drenching action, the only problem being that the colour of the blood ... read more »
  
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- - TrevorR
  - 74 reviews
  - Boston
  - 15 Jan 2011 at 10:08
- - 0
  - 0
  Awfull
  
  Dubbed and must be a merge of a couple of the early ones. I'm a great fan of the ex-kaishakunin and Daigaro, however this is a sh*te american version. The ... read more »
  
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- - Kaishakunin
  - 1 review
  - Tring
  - 08 Jan 2010 at 14:41
- - 0
  - 0
  Shogun Assassin
  
  My husband thought this film was fantastic I didn't share his view. He thought that it was a masterpiece.I thought that it was sloppy. So it really depends... read more »
  
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- - lonandmia
  - 60 reviews
  - Hornchurch
  - 07 Sep 2009 at 13:47
- - 0
  - 0
  Amusing
  
  I remembered it to be a good action movie but it's really Manga style comic book stuff. Still some amusement though. See if you can spot where Quentin ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Bracknell
  - 18 Aug 2009 at 14:30
- - 0
  - 0
  Horrid
  
  It was recommended. I hated it.
  
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- - Jen32
  - 28 reviews
  - London
  - 04 Apr 2009 at 23:32
- - 0
  - 0
  boring
  
  fell asleap watching this
  
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- 693099
- - Hayley Read
  - england
  - 22 Jan 2009 at 14:15
- - 0
  - 0
  Agreeing with others
  
  If you're going to watch only one of the Lone Wolf and Cub series this is well worth a watch but I'm agreeing with a lot of the other reviews.
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- - leeksoup
  - 3 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 20 Nov 2008 at 11:59
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- - 21
  - 1
  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 ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 5284
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - London, UK
  - 30 Apr 2004 at 22:02
- - 6
  - 2
  hi mum am on the net
  
  i got this dvd because it the film the bride watched with her daughter at the end of kill bill vol 2 and guess what the film is dead cool, ioved it that much i ... read more »
  
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- - marc duffy
  - st helens england
  - 11 Dec 2004 at 22:29
- - 5
  - 0
  A Classic!!!!!
  
  This film is simply one of the best films ever made! There is so much more it than a simple sword fighting movie, from the way it is shot, it's pace and ... read more »
  
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- - gmatchwick
  - Bristol
  - 04 Aug 2004 at 13:01
- - 4
  - 1
  True Lelegend type Samurai
  
  The Gashing Heads, Cut of Limbs and jet spiraling blood makes this one of the best original samurai epics; sharp, short but edgy dialoges.
  
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- 306665
- - Tulips1
  - Surrey
  - 20 Jul 2004 at 00:34
- - 4
  - 2
  Bloody Brilliance!
  
  I have spent most of the past six months watching Kurosawa films. Determined to work my way through the Jap classics, Shogun Assassin had to be in there ... read more »
  
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- - Mia Sullivan
  - Oxford, England.
  - 28 Mar 2005 at 16:01
- - 4
  - 2
  I’ll swap you - 70 minutes of storyline for 90 gallons of blood -Deal!?!
  
  There are films which, when they are made, reach out to their audiences, instilling in them a vision of wonder and excitement hitherto previously unknown to ... read more »
  
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- - Billy
  - Edinburgh, Scotland
  - 25 May 2007 at 13:51
- - 2
  - 0
  Kung Fu kick ass
  
  Shogun Assassin is the result of the editing down of a series of films made in the mid 70's entitled The Babycart Series. Shogun Assassin takes you through... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - S&*t'sville
  - 08 Oct 2004 at 13:00
- - 2
  - 0
  Brilliant film, a ...
  
  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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- 27488
- - Bigga.G#1
  - SYDENHAM
  - 01 Feb 2004 at 14:44
- - 2
  - 0
  Without this 70s kung ...
  
  Without this 70s kung fu hotch potch there would be no Kill Bill. A 16th century Ronin avenges the death of his wife whilst pushing his son about in a wooden ... read more »
  
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- 27620
- - munchkin#1
  - LONDON
  - 04 Feb 2004 at 20:31
- - 2
  - 0
  Well worth it for Tarantino fans.
  
  Stylistically this is a top notch movie. You can see that this film influenced Tarantino in Kill Bill and it's even featured in Kill Bill Vol. 2. (when the ... read more »
  
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- 53149
- - a customer
  - Poole
  - 14 Nov 2004 at 13:12

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  More a greatest hits movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, SHOGUN ASSASSIN is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a ...

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  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....