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<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:10px;"><i class="fa fa-film"> </i> '''The Tarantino Connection'''<br /> In Quentin Tarantino's [https://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Kill_Bill Kill Bill]", Shogun Assassin is a favorite film of Bill and his young daughter BB. The film (and the Lone Wolf & Cub series) also influenced the super bloody samurai sword fights between The Bride and her enemies.</div> | <div style="border:1px solid black;padding:10px;"><i class="fa fa-film"> </i> '''The Tarantino Connection'''<br /> In Quentin Tarantino's [https://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Kill_Bill Kill Bill]", Shogun Assassin is a favorite film of Bill and his young daughter BB. The film (and the Lone Wolf & Cub series) also influenced the super bloody samurai sword fights between The Bride and her enemies like the Crazy 88.</div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:14, 24 May 2024
Shogun Assassin (1980, USA/Japan) is a Chambara-Action film directed by Robert Houston.
- Contents: Watch Trailer | Film Review | Available DVDs | Blu Ray | Fun Facts | Soundtrack | Poster Art
- Featured in: 42nd Street Forever: Volume 1 | 42nd Street Forever: Volume 2 - The Deuce | Drive In Delirium: Maximum 80s Overdrive (BluRay) | Lone Wolf and Cub (Criterion) | Shogun Assassin: 5 Film Collectors Set | Shogun Assassin: 5 Film Collector's Set (Blu Ray) | Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide Pt. 2
The Tarantino Connection
In Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill", Shogun Assassin is a favorite film of Bill and his young daughter BB. The film (and the Lone Wolf & Cub series) also influenced the super bloody samurai sword fights between The Bride and her enemies like the Crazy 88.
In Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill", Shogun Assassin is a favorite film of Bill and his young daughter BB. The film (and the Lone Wolf & Cub series) also influenced the super bloody samurai sword fights between The Bride and her enemies like the Crazy 88.
Main Details
- Released in 1980
- Color
- Running Time: 86 Min.
- Production Co: Baby Cart | Katsu Production Co. Ltd. | Toho Company
- Distribution Co: New World Pictures (1980) (US-theatrical-dubbed)
- Directed by Robert Houston
- Written by Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, David Weisman
- Starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki
- Voices by Lamont Johnson, Marshall Efron, Sandra Bernhard
- Produced by Robert Houston, Shintarô Katsu, Michael Maiello, Hisaharu Matsubara, Peter Shanaberg, David Weisman
- Original Music by W. Michael Lewis, Mark Lindsay, Kunihiko Murai, Hideaki Sakurai
- Cinematography by Chishi Makiura
- Film Editing by Lee Percy, Toshio Taniguchi
Plot Summary
- 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.
Taglines
- The legend of lone wolf and cub continues!
- Lone wolf and son. The greatest team in the history of mass slaughter.
- Sword and sorcery ...with a vengeance.
- He whips out his sword and relieves his victims of their heads!
- It's impossible to keep a body count!
- Revenge is a dish best served cold
