Shogun Assassin (1980)

Directed by

Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi

Genre

samurai cinema, Jidaigeki

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R 18+

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 193 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A samurai warrior and his young son travel across feudal Japan as assassins for hire. They are hunted by enemies from the samurai's past as they fight for survival.

violentstylizedgrimfast-pacedretrohypnoticvisceralbleak

What happens

Shogun Assassin is a 1980 jidaigeki film directed by Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston. It was edited and compiled from the first two films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, using 12 minutes of the first film, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi Udekashi Tsukamatsuru or Wolf with Child in Tow: Child and Expertise for Rent), and most of Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no Kawa no Ubaguruma or Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator of the River of Sanzu), both released in 1972 and based on the long-running 1970s manga series Lone Wolf and Cub created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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