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Released
1980 · FILM

Shogun Assassin

He whips out his sword and relieves his victims of their heads!!

Runtime
85 min
ActionAdventure
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

A shogun, growing increasingly paranoid as he descended into senility, ordered his ninjas to assassinate his own samurai. The mission failed in its primary objective but succeeded in killing the samurai’s wife. Vowing vengeance for her death, the samurai embarked on a journey across the countryside with his young son in tow, seeking retribution.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lee PercyShot by Chikashi MakiuraScored by W Michael Lewis

Also known as

  • Henker des Shogunde
  • Shogun il giustiziereit

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