Lone Wolf is understandably not pleased about this and sets out to avenge her death, taking his son with him. The film really just works as a Japanese western about the shogun a man killing to avenge the death of his wife. Alejandro Jodorowsky: 4K Restoration Collection The Vision of Escaflowne - The Complete Series [Blu ray] [Blu-ray] KanColle Kantai Collection: The Complete Series [Blu ray] [Blu-ray] World Break - Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman - The Complete Series [Blu-ray] GANGSTA. A real blast I was fortunate enough to see in a theater with a rambunctious audience back in 1980. Really p*$$×d as it's almost unwatchable. So it's easy enough to set to English subtitles but slightly worrying at first when the dvd doesn't have the title you expected - because it's in Polish and not in English. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife.
Shogun Assassin is one of the best samurai movies of all time and a great introduction to Japanese films, and it was the film that sent me down the 70s Japanese-cult-film-rabbit-hole.
I was blown away. A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Now available for the first time in North America, Academy Award-winnning director Robert Houston's legendary epic has been reconstructed for this official release from new digital transfers of the original Lone Wolf & Cub films.
Lindsay was formerly a member of the 1960s rock group Paul Revere and the Raiders, which also provided the soundtrack for the American release. It uses about 11 minutes of footage from the first film and 70 minutes of footage from the second.
No_Favorite. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.Amazon....now selling bootlegs by the local gas station. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. SHOGUN ASSASSIN was actually edited down from two films in the popular Japanese "Lone Wolf" series, BABY CART AT RIVER STYX and SWORD OF VENGEANCE. Or otherwise it is an Exploitation film. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The shogun assassin is just built by using the first 10 minutes of the first movie and then sticking it into the second as well as dubbing and shooting a lot more graphic killing scenes and new music.
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The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I was surprised to learn that this is in fact edited together from the first two movies in the baby cart series.