Shogun Assassin
Shogun Assassin is a 1980 film from Japan and the USA, directed by Robert Houston and Kenji Misumi, running 85 minutes. reelscum files it under chanbara.
- Year
- 1980 · 1980s films
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Director
- Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (26/100)
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Chanbara
The re-edited Lone Wolf and Cub compilation was placed on the Section 3 seizure list.
Two Lone Wolf and Cub films chopped into one English dub. A grindhouse legend regardless.
The American cult object assembled from the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films, re-edited and dubbed into a single 80-minute bloodbath narrated by the toddler. Purists object, and they have a point, but the resulting film became a grindhouse and video legend in its own right, sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan and quoted in Kill Bill.
It is faster and pulpier than the originals, stripped of their contemplative passages and pushed toward pure action. As an entry point to the saga it is disreputable and effective.
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