Eureka Video has announced
Shogun Assassin for Blu-ray release on November 29, on a limited-edition dual-format SteelBook edition.
Shogun Assassin is a US-made condensation of the first two films in the
Lone Wolf and Cub series of Japanese movies. In the UK, it was originally censored by the BBFC for cinema release and then banned as a video nasty. Now it is released fully uncut.
Special features include:
- Audio commentaries:
- Producer David Weisman, illustrator Jim Evans and actor Gibran Evans (the voice of Daigoro)
- Film scholar Ric Meyers and martial arts expert Steve Watson
- New video appreciation of the film by actor Samuel L. Jackson
- Original HD theatrical trailer for Shogun Assassin
- Original Japanese trailers for all six of the original Lone Wolf and Cub films