Shogun Assassin (1980)

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7.4	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Kenji Misumi

Robert Houston

Starring (View all)

Tomisaburo Wakayama
Lone Wolf

Kayo Matsuo
Supreme Ninja

Minoru Ôki
Master of Death

Shin Kishida
Master of Death

Akihiro Tomikawa
Daigoro

Lamont Johnson
Voice

Marshall Efron
Voice

Sandra Bernhard
Voice

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Robert Houston

Kazuo Koike
screenplay

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Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. 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. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. 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.

Release date: 11 November 1980

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" When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death. Shogun Assassin 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 Expertis"

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"Rated: R Why it’s rated: He’s a shogun. Who assassinates people."

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