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Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film (2005) Robert "Bobby" Houston (born 1955) is an American filmmaker and actor. He made his acting debut in The Hills Have Eyes (1977) before becoming a film director and screenwriter. His films include Shogun Assassin (1980) and Bad Manners (1984).
Robert Houston. Actor: The Hills Have Eyes. Director/writer Bobby Houston is a California-based filmmaker whose most recent documentary, Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004), won the Academy Award in March 2005.
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[Wikipedia on Robert Houston]: He was responsible for editing together the first two Lone Wolf & Cub Japanese action films into a partially rescored, English-dubbed cut called Shogun Assassin in 1980. Director. Screenwriter. Actor. Producer. Robert Houston – Movies, Bio and Lists on MUBI.
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As the opening credits roll, an abbreviated version of Ogami Ittō's (Tomisaburô Wakayama) past as Shogunate Decapitator and his wife's murder by ninja are seen, with Daigorō (Akihiro Tomikawa) providing the narration. Two hooded samurai attack Ogami while he is pushing a cart with Daigorō inside. Ogami fends off the attack of the first, breaking th...
Other English dub actors: 1. Marshall Efron 2. Lennie Weinrib 3. Sam Weisman 4. Mark Lindsay 5. Robert Houston 6. David Weisman
Shogun Assassin is a combination of two Japanese films, predominantly that of Baby-cart at the River Styx (1972) and 12 minutes of Sword of Vengeance. In Japan the movie is known as 子連れ狼,, Kozure Okami. The project was directed by Robert Houston and his partner David Weisman, a protégé of Andy Warhol and director of Ciao! Manhattan (1972). A fan of...
Shogun Assassin was released theatrically in the United States 11 November 1980 by Roger Corman's New World Pictures to the grindhouse movie circuit in the United States, and then later as a video cassette from MCA/Universal Home Video. When released in the United Kingdom by the Vipco video tape label in 1983, Shogun Assassin's extreme violence alm...
From contemporary reviews, Vincent Canby of The New York Times, wrote Shogun Assassin "is as furiously mixed up as What's Up, Tiger Lily?" and that outside "the little-boy's narration, the movie's not much fun once you've gotten the picture, which is that of a tubby, outcast samurai wandering the length and breadth of Japan, pushing an antique baby...
Dialogue excerpts from the film have been sampled in hip-hop music, with samples from the film being prominently featured in several songs from the 1995 album Liquid Swords by GZA. Dialogue from the film was also sampled in the song "Agent Orange" by rapper Cage, from his debut album Movies for the Blind (2002). In the 2004 film Kill Bill: Volume 2...
Shogun Assassin at IMDbRobert "Bobby" Houston (born 1955) is an American filmmaker and actor. Houston first came to prominence with his performance of the character Bobby in Wes Craven's 1977 horror classic The Hills Have Eyes. He would reprise his role in the sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II.
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer Born November 30, 1955 in California, USA Director/writer Bobby Houston is a California-based filmmaker whose most recent documentary, Mighty Times: The Children's March (2004), won the Academy Award in March 2005.
