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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. This is Rob Lamb. And today we have an episode that originally published 12-6-2020.

It is our discussion of the 1980 Grindhouse mainstay Shogun assassin.

This, of course, is a Western release compiled from the first two lone wolf and cub films.

It's so much fun.

So just sizzling action and has a really captivating electronic score.

So let's jump right into this episode.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.

This is Rob Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick, and today we're going to be talking about a film from the year 1980, the blood-drenched samurai film Shogun Assassin.

Rob, this was your pick. How did you get to Shogun Assassin? Oh, wow. Mainly because I had subscribed to Criterion Channel in order to watch Face Behind the Mask for a previous episode.

And they have all these little collections in there, little playlists of movies to check out.

And they had one that was just called synth scores.

So, of course, I had to dive in and see what kind of movies they

had included there. And they included one film that I had heard of, but I'd never seen,

and that's Shogun Assassin. And so I started playing it, like I think I was eating lunch by

myself at the time. And it was one of those films where before I knew what had happened,

I'd watched most of the film, you know? Like I had other things I really needed to do that day,

but I was already, like, sucked into it. It's just, if you've never seen it, I highly recommend

diving in as well, because I think it will captivate most people who watch it. It is incredible in

many ways. And I can see why it would be classified primarily in terms of its soundtrack, because it,

the music in this movie just, it washes over you like a like a dark rainbow. It's just

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