Shogun Assassin
Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 04:17AM
Any film that begins with a narrator uttering the immortal verse "When I was little, my father was famous. He was the greatest Samurai in the empire, and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of 131 lords for the Shogun. It was a bad time for the empire." has to quite simply fucking rock and 1980's Shogun Assassin does just that. It's influences are far and wide and it's geyser spouting blood letting has been copied heavily ever since. The film itself was banned in 1983 although it's difficult to see why now.
Shogun Assassin in
Absolute Classic,
Action,
Cult,
Martial Arts 




