Despite being cut down from two Lone Wolf and Club features and redubbed in English, the 1980 Shogun Assassin proved one of the most popular samurai films since the golden days of Kurosawa.

After being framed for disloyalty to his clan lord, disgraced ronin Itto Ogami (with three-year-old son Daigoro in tow) travels medieval Japan as the most skilled samurai-for-hire bar none. But as the treachery and obstacles in his latest mission quickly pile up, Ogami is forced to handle it the only way he knows how.

A re-scored, re-dubbed reassembly of the first two films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the result has become an cult hit in its own right: a crazed thrill-ride in a booby-trapped baby cart, propelled on arterial spray, hurtling gleefully to nowhere.

Originally censored by the BBFC for cinema release and then banned as a video nasty, Shogun Assassin will be released by Eureka Entertainment on 29th November 2010 at the RRP of £24.99, fully uncut and in a Ltd edition Dual Format Steelbook (containing Blu-ray and DVD editions) and a fully restored 1080p presentation of the film in its original cuts on the Blu-ray, plus the following extras:

• New video appreciation of the film by actor Samuel L. Jackson;
• Commentary track featuring producer David Weisman, illustrator Jim Evans and actor Gibran Evans (the voice of Daigoro);
• Commentary track with film scholar Ric Meyers and martial arts expert Steve Watson;
• Original HD theatrical trailer for Shogun Assassin;
• Original Japanese trailers for all six of the original Lone Wolf and Cub films.