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Directed by Robert Houston +1
A violent, atmospheric action film.
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.
Shogun Assassin is showing in 1 cinema in London - next screening Monday 19 October at 20:45 at The Nickel Cinema.
Next screenings: Monday 19 October.
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Liquid Swords brought me here, and I'm not mad about it.
It'd be great if American films did what was accomplished here: just cut together the absolute coolest sequences and imagery from contemporary franchises, re-score them with a completely different sound, use eerie voiceover as the stitching and reissue with unrelated titles. Fuck coherence, we want sick vibes.Mission: Impossible 6 + 7 = Spymaster's RevengeJohn Wick 3 + 4 = Gun MajestyTransformers 3 + 5 = King Arthur's Moon LandingPrometheus + Aliens = Nightbitch
"Your ... technique ... is ... magnificent."Dubbing a movie into English from another language is usually an inherently artless process, sloppy and smelling vaguely of illiteracy. This is a completely different animal though, transmuting a couple of Lone Wolf & Cub movies into a streamlined pop-art killing machine, with murderous synths and buckets and buckets of beautiful bright red blood. Mythic.
A disgraced samurai travels across the Japanese countryside with his young son while hunting down the ninja assassins sent by a paranoid ruler.
It was directed by Robert Houston and Kenji Misumi, released in 1980 as a condensed English-dubbed adaptation of Japanese jidaigeki films.
Shogun Assassin did not capture major festival prizes upon release, but it achieved enduring cult status and heavily influenced later hip-hop culture.
