Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Screenplay by
Based onLone Wolf and Cub
by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyChishi Makiura
Edited byLee Percy
Music by
Production
companies
  • Toho
  • Katsu
  • Baby-Cart Productions
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • November 11, 1980 (1980-11-11) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
Countries
  • Japan
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

Shogun Assassin is a 1980 jidaigeki film directed by Robert Houston. It was edited and compiled from the first two films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, using 12 minutes of the first film, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi Udekashi Tsukamatsuru or Wolf with Child in Tow: Child and Expertise for Rent), and most of Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no Kawa no Ubaguruma or Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator of the River of Sanzu), both released in 1972 and based on the long-running 1970s manga series Lone Wolf and Cub created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima.