Synopsis
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
- Koji YakushoShinzaemon Shimada
- Takayuki YamadaShinrokuro Shimada
- Yûsuke IseyaKoyata
- Goro InagakiLord Naritsugu Matsudaira
- Kazue FukiishiTsuya / Upashi
- Hiroki MatsukataKuranaga
- Tsuyoshi IharaKuzuro Hirayama
- Ikki SawamuraGunziro Mitsuhasi
- Arata FurutaHeizo Sahara
- Sousuke TakaokaYasoyosi Hioki
Recommandations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
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
Time Out
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
Los Angeles Times
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
Variety
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. - 90
The New York Times
A stirring, unexpectedly moving story of love and blood. - 90
Movieline
The picture does, in places, feel like an unspoken homage to Kurosawa, though it's certainly its own distinct creation. But I wonder if it more closely resembles another end-of-an-era picture, Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." - 78
Austin Chronicle
It's also a deeply moral antiwar film, if one chooses to view it that way.
