SHOGUN ASSASSIN w/ Live Score by SONTAG SHOGUN!
Sat, Dec 06
|Epsilon Spires
Experience the legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness. A giddily entertaining, hallucinatory classic of grindhouse mayhem with an immersive live soundtrack by SONTAG SHOGUN on piano, organ, analog electronics.
Time & Location
Dec 06, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Shogun Assassin (Dir. Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston, 1980, 85 mins). The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, a giddily entertaining, mesmerizingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem. Following the murder of his wife at the hands of an evil shogun, an avenging ronin (Tomisaburo Wakayama) roams the countryside with his young son—and the boy’s sword-shooting baby carriage—in tow, dispatching ninja assassins with steely resolve in operatically stylized flurries of hallucinatory violence-- Shogun Assassin proved an instant cult favorite that has bubbled its way up from the underground to the mainstream thanks to its influence on artists ranging from the Wu-Tang Clan to Quentin Tarantino.
Sontag Shogun is a collaborative trio that makes use of analog sound treatments and nostalgic solo piano compositions in harmony to depict abstract places in our memory. Textures built from organic materials such as sand, slate, boiling…