---
title: 'Shogun Assassin (1980)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kenji Misumi'
released: '1980-11-07'
runtime_minutes: 85
certification: 'R'
countries:
  - 'United States'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/shogun-assassin-1980'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081506/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Shogun Assassin (1980)

1980 · R · 85 min · United States, Japan


## Synopsis

Shogun Assassin is a 1980 jidaigeki film directed by Kenji Misumi and 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, and most of Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx, 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kenji Misumi](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-misumi), [Robert Houston](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-houston)
- **Producer:** [Robert Houston](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-houston), [Shintarō Katsu](https://cinepixo.com/people/shintaro-katsu)
- **Screenplay:** [Kazuo Koike](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuo-koike)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Mark Lindsay](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-lindsay)

## Cast

- [Tomisaburō Wakayama](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomisaburo-wakayama)
- [Shin Kishida](https://cinepixo.com/people/shin-kishida)
- [Kayo Matsuo](https://cinepixo.com/people/kayo-matsuo)
- [Akiji Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/akiji-kobayashi)

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