All the Wu-Tang heads that peep this blog should already have this jawn in they archives. If not, you are straight up lunchin’ on one of the greatest serials ever produced into a movie. On another post we will talk about Crying Freeman, but for now let’s kick it about ‘Shogun Assassin’ a/k/a ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’. the main character is a master samurai who works for the Shogunate in feudal Japan. The Shogun is worried that the master samurai will one day come to kill him too because he is a corrupt and unjust ruler so he hires ninja to kill the master samurai. The ninja fail to kill the samurai and instead murder his wife. After that goes down shit is so on and poppin’.
A great scene in the movie is when the master samurai offers his son the choice to follow his mother with Buddha or join him in hell. Shorty is only an infant but he has to choose between the ball or the sword. Shorty chooses the sword because even as a baby he is gangster like that. He and his dad roam the countryside seeking revenge from the evil Shogun and his many henchmen. Niggas die in this movie like every minute too. Decapitations, dismemberments, flying swords to the eye socket, just straight up 7-thirty wild style shit. Even shorty gets into the action by helping his dad take apart this ancient Maclaren stroller that is fitted out with knives and the what not.
It’s ill to see the bond that develops between the son and the father. the movie is narrated at points by the son who recounts his dad’s exploits. Eventually the master samurai gets his revenge upon the Shogun and by that time you are delirious with laughter because there are more dead people in this film than you could ever count. QUENTIN TARANTINO is a hack job bastard, but he will stay paid in full as long as the people that see his flicks don’t know his source material. Fuck a KILL BILL. NetFlix ‘Shogun Assassin’ for yourself and tell me if it aint the most gully flick you ever watched.
The first time I saw that movie I was thinking “I bet those Wu-Tang dudes use some of this shit” and sure enough, the next year “Liquid Swords” came out.
I’m like Nastra-freakin-damus over here.
just ordered me a copy from amazon what you know bout the whole series?
Shougun Assassin takes a couple of the Lone Wolf and Cub movies and edits them together. If you watch Shogun Assassin and dig that, then get the whole series….All time great
whos gonna go see WU rock in NYC with me and the rest of the JC^2 crew?
Shougun Assassin is one of the best movies of all time!
^word!
I always had to give the Wu props…lots of artists have samples that make you peep old music, but the Wu made us get up on our movie game.
Lord jamar the 5%album just drop go cop that
i just like watching muthafuckaz die.
This flick is the absolute best!!!
^Combat Jack is in the bldg.