Along the way many assassins and Ninja try to stop him, but he is a relentless one man killing machine. Lone Wolf has one thing on his mind - vengeance. After the murder of his wife he hits the road with his young son, who he pushes along in a souped up baby cart. Martial arts veteran Tomisaburo Wakayama plays Ogami Itto, aka "Lone Wolf", a samurai who refuses to serve the evil Shogun. I only hope that Tarantino's references to 'Shogun Assassin' in 'Kill Bill' introduce it to a whole new audience. It not only "works", it's one of the greatest action movies ever made, and a source of inspiration for both John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino. On paper this really shouldn't have worked, but it does. The brains behind this idea were Robert Houston, one of the stars of Wes Craven's horror classic 'The Hills Have Eyes', and David Weisman, the writer/director of the Edie Sedgwick cult classic 'Ciao Manhattan'. 'Shogun Assassin' is actually re-edited footage from two of the early 1970s Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub movies, dubbed into English.
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This movie really made me want to watch the originals as well, so I guess this movie is still good for something.
The fans of the genre will still get a kick out of it, though they would of course most likely prefer the original movies. It's action sequences especially stand out and it's one of those movies with exaggerated fight sequences and squirting blood. But even so, this still remains a good watch, due to it's great source material. This of course just isn't very much the case with this movie. It takes its time to build up the story and put down its characters. Guess it's good for the pace of the movie but there is a reason why Japanese movies are often such slow moving ones.
It's like a re-edited version of only the action sequences. The storytelling isn't always anything too great now and scenes often too rapidly follow each other, without making much sense. This re-editing of course also takes away a lot out of the movie. This version got obviously made to aim more toward the American market but that of course just doesn't give you the right to just take a bunch of movies and edit them into one and cash in on it. It's not like I hated watching this but it all also seemed pretty pointless to me at the same time.
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Nevertheless this doesn't prevent Robert Houston from giving himself full credit for directing and writing this. This is not an actual movie but a re-edited version of the first couple of Japanese 'Kozure Ôkami' movies, with English voices added to it.
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