Storyline
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
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Cast
Takayuki Yamada, Kazuki Namioka, Yuma Ishigaki, Sousuke Takaoka, Kazutoshi Yokoyama, Masachika Ichimura, Koji Yakusho, Ittoku Kishibe, Yusuke Iseya, Gorô Inagaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Hiroki Matsukata, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Seiji Rokkaku, Kôen Kondô, Masataka Kubota, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Masaaki Uchino, Ken Mitsuishi, Mikijiro Hira, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takumi Saito, Shinnosuke Abe, Meguru Katô
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Reviews
100
The well-crafted 13 Assassins, a remake of a 1960s samurai film, is one of his best; it shows that Takashi could be a great filmmaker if he'd only slow down.
100
A classically structured rampage that bears serious comparison to the definitive greats of Akira Kurosawa, 13 Assassins will floor connoisseurs of action, mood and the dignity of a pissed-off scowl.
100
Wall Street Journal
Right makes might in Takashi Miike's excellent-and exceedingly violent-remake of a 1966 Japanese classic by Eiichi Kudo.
100
Few filmmakers juxtapose cruelty and beauty as audaciously as Japan's Takashi Miike. A master director with great style and panache, Miike's latest, 13 Assassins, is a classic samurai movie, right up there among the finest in the genre.
90
This at first slow-moving and then wildly kinetic actioner possesses a cool classicism that will appeal to offshore audiences as well as those at home.
