Many of you may remember the incredible Shogun Assassin, released in 1980. This feature was edited from a few episodes of the Lone Wolf and Cub series of movies. We still get requests for this title which sadly is no longer available. (You can still find it for rent in more discriminating video stores.) Finally someone has licensed the 6 origianl films and is remastering and releasing them in fully restored and subtitled widescreen versions. Shogun Assassin was so great, my friends and I spent many late nights watching pretty bad prints of the Lone Wolf movies on Spanish TV. We didn't understand a word - good thing we didn't need to!

He was Itto Ogami, a man who held himself to the harsh code of Bushido, entrusted by the Shogun with the gravest of responsibilities, that of official executioner. His flashing blade brought swift release to those ordered to commit Seppuku, ritual suicide - be they man, woman, or even child.

He was Itto Ogami, falsely accused of treason by the evil Yagyu Clan, stripped of his position; his wife murdered by Yagyu assassins.

He was Itto Ogami, a father who gave his infant son a terrible choice between a beautiful red ball and a sword. To choose the ball meant to join his mother in the Void, to choose the sword meant to join his father, now a Ronin, a samurai without a master, in a blood-soaked journey that must end in revenge and death.

Ogami and his son are no more, through the countryside of Japan now stalks... The Lone Wolf and Cub!

Starring Wakayama Tomisaburo, Watanabe Fumio, Ito Yunosuka, Tsuyuguchi Shigeru
Directed by Misumi Kenji
Produced by Katsu Shintaro (Zatoichi) and Matsubara Hisaharu

	Lone Wolf and Cub-Sword of Vengeance
VHS	Color	Unrated	83 Min.	$29.99
Japanese Language with English Subtitles
Full Color Widescreen Collector's Edition
ISBN 1-56567-212-7			Available 11/26/96

	The Razor-Sword of Justice
VHS	Color	Unrated	90 Min.	$29.99
Japanese Language with English Subtitles
Full Color Widescreen Collector's Edition
ISBN 1-56567-224-0			Available 11/26/96

	The Razor-Sword of Justice
LAS	Color	Unrated	90 Min.	$39.99
Japanese Language with English Subtitles
Full Color Widescreen Collector's Edition				CLV
ISBN 1-56567-227-5			Available 12/10/96