The chanbara series "Lone Wolf and Cub" recut for easily bored western exploitation audiences. While I'm really fond of the original movies, I also love the Shogun Assassin cut. It is fast, brutal and awesome. This was the film I unknowingly longed for and wanted to stumble upon in the rental shop when I grew up. I only heard of it much later. It still feels weird/wrong to see this film in a super crisp restored widescreen cut, as I learned to love it through a shitty copy with mad pan-and-scan issues. Also, Mark Lindsay's soundtrack for this is badass!
PS: This was never actually on the DPP list if I remember correctly.
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