Koji Yakusho

Takayuki Yamada

Yûsuke Iseya

Goro Inagaki

Kazue Fukiishi

Hiroki Matsukata

Tsuyoshi Ihara

Ikki Sawamura

Arata Furuta

Sousuke Takaoka

Rokkaku Seiji

Kazuki Namioka

Koen Kondo

Yuma Ishigaki

Masataka Kubota

Masachika Ichimura

Matsumoto Hakuō II

Seiyo Uchino

Ken Mitsuishi

Ittoku Kishibe

Mikijiro Hira

Mitsuki Tanimura

Takumi Saitoh

Shinnosuke Abe

Meguru Katô

Kazutoshi Yokoyama

Megumi Kagurazaka

Hajime Inoue

Minami Ichikawa

Takashi Miike

Tōichirō Shiraishi

Takashi Hirashiro

Hiroaki Kitano

Shigeji Maeda

Takahiro Ohno

Yoshinari Shimatani

Kazuomi Susaki

Toshiyasu Ohmiya

Tomoko Machida

Takashi Hirajo

Yuuji Shimamoto

Michihiko Umezawa

Michio Uematsu

Hisashi Usui

Kagami Yoshiada

Yutaka Ônishi

Koji Yoshida

Masaaki Ujô

Yuji Hayashida

Nobuyasu Kita

Koji Endo

Jeremy Thomas

Toshiaki Nakazawa

Kenji Yamashita

Kaneo Ikegami

Daisuke Tengan

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十三人の刺客

TOHO

Sedic International

Toei Studios Kyoto

TV Asahi Music

IMAGICA

TV Asahi

dentsu

Shogakukan

The Asahi Shimbun

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

Nagoya Broadcasting Network

Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting

Television Hokkaido Broadcasting

Yahoo! Japan

TSUTAYA Group

Hiroshima Home Television

Sedic Deux

Raku Film

Recorded Picture Company

HanWay Films

Japan Action Enterprise

Japan

United Kingdom

日本語

13 Assassins

suicide

mission

japan

assassin

samurai

immortality

swordsman

massacre

battle

samurai sword

seppuku

code of honor

ronin

kimono

jidaigeki

edo period

warrior

19th century

harakiri

bakumatsu

Andres Gomez

Much predictable and brutal. Just some action movie in which 13 guys kill by hundreds ...

Takashi Miike excels at creating true horror from the internal darkness of humanity and this is clearly evident in his brutal depiction of the villain of this movie, Lord Naritsugu. Through this characterization he establishes a strong motivation for us to stick around and witness the epic 45 minute battle at the film's climax in our hope to see Naritsugu brought to justice. Period Japan is depicted in a fashion that appears competent and authentic and the climactic battle is satisfyingly crunchy and visceral. The story is simple and direct and Miike's deft hand spends the first half setting up a truly despicable, hate-able villain and the titular assassins and their heroic leader, Shinzaemon, then the second half delivering a very satisfying come-uppance in a relentless fury of action, blood and mud. Well worth watching if you like this sort of thing!

CinemaSerf

Very much in the spirit of Kurosawa, Takashi Miike has assembled a strong cast to depict some fairly epic struggles for power in the 19th century Japanese shogunate. It's the brother of the Shogun who seems to be the source of the trouble. Having mercilessly murdered a family - against the instructions of his sibling - he has earned the enmity of veteran Samurai "Shinzaemon" (Kôji Yakusho) but with a significant political appointment in Edo looming, it would appear he is untouchable. It's the journey "Naritsugu" (Gorô Inagaki) must make through the densely forested countryside that might offer an opportunity for revenge, but he has the equally lethal Samurai "Hanbei" (Masachika Ichimura) orgainisng his large escort. With but a dozen men and the intrepid under "Koyata" (Yûsuke Iseya) to guide them along less trodden paths, this disparate baker's dozen must try to anticipate the path their nemesis will take and then strive to reduce the odds against them. These men are too honourable to resort to underhand guerrilla tactics so each battle must be fought openly and with the pride of their code. The last hour or so of this offers us as compelling a series of combat scenes, mixed with plenty of lithe action and even a little black humour, as you're ever lively to see. The energy and gymnastics on display is compelling to watch, the filth, mud and grime that coats their bodies add authenticity and the low-key soundtrack all build to an action-packed and by no means predictable conclusion. If you can watch on a big screen then this, like most films of this genre, really does come alive and Miike manages to avoid the repetition trap so easy to fall into with films like this. If you've seen and enjoyed the 1963 Kudô version, then this remake won't disappoint you.

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13 Assassins( 2010)

Take up your sword.

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A review by Andres Gomez

Written by Andres Gomez on Mon Jan 26 2015

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