Legacy
Most of the music in the film is taken from Krautrock bands Neu!, Tangerine Dream, and Kraftwerk. Rights issues with the score later caused the Australian DVD release to entirely replace the soundtrack.
Clips from the film's soundtrack (particularly Super 16 by Neu! which plays whenever the assassin appears) have been sampled by Wu Tang Clan and has been mentioned in their lyrics.
Quentin Tarantino has cited the film as "one of my favorite movies of all time." In his film Kill Bill, he used the villain's theme music briefly when O-Ren Ishii appeared, as well as the film's protagonist's hiding on the ceiling in the same manner as the imperial assassin in this film.
The character Dhalsim from the Street Fighter video game series has been compared to the Indian assassin in the film.
In The Boondocks episode Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy, the Hateocracy member, Lord Rufus Crabmiser, used a flying guillotine disguised as a lobster trap to attack the Freeman family and ultimately kill Bushido Brown.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)