十三人の刺客 (“Jûsan-nin no shikaku” – original title)
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| 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Japan
Director:
Takashi Miike
Writers:
Kaneo Ikegami (based on a screenplay by), Shoichirou Ikemiya (story) | 1 more
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Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill
an evil lord.
13 Assassins is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike and starring Kōji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka and Hiroki Matsukata. A remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 Japanese period drama film 13 Assassins, it is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo period in which a group of thirteen assassins—comprising twelve samurai and a hunter—secretly plot to assassinate Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu, the murderous leader of the Akashi clan, to thwart his appointment to the powerful Shogunate Council.
The film marks the third time in
which Yamada and Takaoka co-starred, the first two being Crows Zero and Crows
Zero 2, both directed by Miike. Principal photography on 13 Assassins
took place in the course of two months in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, in northern
Japan, in the period from July to September 2009. The film opened in Japan on
25 September 2010 and in the United States on 29 April 2011. Western critics
gave the film positive reviews and compared it favourably with Kurosawa's
oeuvre.
Action-packed.
