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13 Assassins (Japanese: 十三人の刺客, Hepburn: Jūsannin no Shikaku) is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki.
13 Assassins: Directed by Takashi Miike. With Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura. A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
May 24, 2011 · “13 Assassins” has what many action pictures need, a villain who transcends evil and ascends to a realm of barbaric madness. Against this creature and his private army, a band of samurai is mustered to end his terror.
Hired secretly by a government official hoping to end Matsudaira's reign of terror, Shimada recruits the best samurai in Japan and then sets a trap for the lord's large contingent of faithful ...
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Apr 28, 2011 · 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. A remake of a black-and-white 1963...
When his tyranny runs rampant, samurai Shinzaemon Shimada (Yakusho) is charged with ensuring Naritsugu's bloody reign ends. With the help of twelve samurai, Shinzaemon must set a trap for the Lord and his 200 men that will prevent him from ascending the throne.
Jun 6, 2012 · Film of the month: 13 Assassins. The prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi is never afraid to shock audiences. But the shock with 13 Assassins is that he has delivered a classical samurai movie worthy of Kurosawa. By Christoph Huber