A sort of remake of Lone Wolf and Cub for the western market condensing the series in one film. In 1980, Americans David Weisman (producer) and Robert Houston (director) stumbled upon the Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub films (in turn based on a hugely successful manga comic book), and realised that while Western Audiences at the time would lap up the violent battles, they might not be ready for the Chanbara genre’s comparatively slow pacing and period politics. They decided to take the best bits of Lone Wolf and Cub parts 1 and 2, and add their own dubbing and simplified plot. Shogun Assassin was born, and is probably responsible to this day for the Chanbara movie’s arrival in the West. Best approached as an introduction to the Lone Wolf and Cub legend.

The story is of 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. Hr 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.

Robert Houston - (1980) Shogun Assassin.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 24 min
Size: 	1.95 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x420 
Aspect ratio:  	2.40:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 962 kb/s
BPP: 	0.287
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC @ 66.2 kb/s (Commentary with (film scholar) Ric Meyers and (martial arts expert) Steve Watson)
#3:  	English 2.0ch AAC @ 64.0 kb/s (Commentary with (producer) David Weisman, (illustrator) Jim Evans and (actor) Gibran Evans (the voice of Daigoro))

https://nitro.download/view/336660BC71E5100/Robert_Houston_-_(1980)_Shogun_Assassin.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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