The Lone Wolf and Cub series follows a betrayed samurai and his son on a mission of revenge, filled with sword fights and emotional moments, and is considered a masterpiece of Japanese cinema. Shogun Assassin is a 1980 English-language Action Adventure motion picture featuring Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Mautso, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki and Tokio Oki. The movie is inspired from Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike Goseki Kojima. Katsu was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Shintaro Katsu, Hisaharu Matsubara and David Weisman. Shogun Assassin is written by Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, David Weisman and Bobby White and it is directed by Robert Houston and Kenji Misumi. New World Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Shogun Assassin was released on 7th November 1980 and takes a screen time of 90 minutes. The screenplay for the movie was written by Robert Houston, David Weisman and Kazuo Koike. Cinematography was done by Chishi Makiura and editing by Lee Percy. The music was composed by W. Michael Lewis along with Mark Lindsay.
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Shogun Assassin Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : negative
Positive Review Rating : 33%
Derek Adams
Clear as mud, innit The exotic cheap thrills are, anyway, with the self parodying laughs and gory comic strip savagery making it a snappy little mongrel all round. ( Read More )
Marjorie Baumgarten
Perhaps not as action packed as some martial arts epics, but Shogun Assassin has an emotional warmth and subtlety that the big guns often lack. ( Read More )
Vincent Canby
Aside from the little boys narration, however, the movies not much fun once youve gotten the picture. ( Read More )
People Staff
In the film, blood doesnt drip from the injuredit spurts, as if from pressurized hoses. ( Read More )
TV Guide Staff
This violent Japanese adventure is surprisingly good, though it doesnt have much of a plot. ( Read More )