13 Assassins

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.

Cast

Koji Yakusho

as Shinzaemon Shimada

Takayuki Yamada

as Shinrokuro Shimada

Yūsuke Iseya

as Koyata

Goro Inagaki

as Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira

Kazue Fukiishi

as Tsuya / Upashi

Hiroki Matsukata

as Kuranaga

Tsuyoshi Ihara

as Kuzuro Hirayama

Ikki Sawamura

as Gunziro Mitsuhasi

Arata Furuta

as Heizo Sahara

Sousuke Takaoka

as Yasoyosi Hioki

Reviews

Andres Gomez

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

sakmode

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...

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 instructi...

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