13 Assassins
十三人の刺客
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.
Reviews
“Much predictable and brutal. Just some action movie in which 13 guys kill by hundreds ...”
— Andres Gomez
★5“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…”
— sakmode
★6Read more“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…”
— CinemaSerf
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