14. Shogun Assassin (1980)
Shogun Assassin was cobbled together from a series of some 1970s Japanese martial arts films by Robert Houston and David Weisman (of Ciao! Manhattan fame) for the Western market in 1980. Banned by the BBFC in 1983 for extreme violence and not released again until 2000. I enjoyed Shogun Assassin. I thought it was poetic and stylish and the quality of the movie was a lot better than I expected. It does boast some bloody mayhem however. Lone Wolf travels the land with his son, always on the look out for the Shogun and his band of ninjas and working as an assassin for hire. Kill scenes happen approximately every 45 seconds and Lone Wolf is one heck of a martial arts/swordsman guy. Blood sprays everywhere liberally as he razes the enemy into the ground. That poor little kid, he's going to be so desensitised to violence..