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Shogun Assassin is a very violent jidaigeki movie made for the American market and released in 1980. It is known for being referenced in Kill Bill Vol. 2
in the end scenes where the protagonist and her daughter watch it as a bed-time story. In addition, the same audio clip was used as the beginning of the first track on GZA's Liquid Swords. The film is considered a classic by many fans of the samurai-film genre.

Shogun Assassin was edited and compiled from the 1972 films Kozure Ōkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru and Kozure Ōkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma; known in English as Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance and Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx respectively, or just Lone Wolf and Cub 1 and 2 for short. These in turn were based on the 1970s manga series Lone Wolf and Cub
created by the writer Kazuo Koike and the artist Goseki Kojima. The movie Shogun Assassin was dubbed to English whereas the originals are in Japanese.

The title character, Ōgami Ittō, is played by Tomisaburo Wakayama, brother of the producer, Shintaro Katsu, who is known for playing Zatoichi in a series of 26 films starting in the 1960s.

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The dubbing of the movie is typified by bad grammar as a result of literal translation and cultural misinterpretation. This has resulted in some quotable catchphrases from the movie:

"They shall pay. Rivers of blood!"

"Oh mad one! We see your trap!"

"Supreme Ninja"

"Your technique is magnificent, when cut across the neck the sound of wailing winter wind is heard they say, I have always wanted to cut a man this way to hear that sound, but to have it happen to my own neck, is ridiculous"

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