13 Assassins

2010 141 min ★ 7.3 Adventure, Drama, Action

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 Yakusho

Shinzaemon Shimada

Takayuki Yamada

Shinrokuro Shimada

Yūsuke Iseya

Koyata

Goro Inagaki

Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira

Kazue Fukiishi

Tsuya / Upashi

Hiroki Matsukata

Kuranaga

Tsuyoshi Ihara

Kuzuro Hirayama

Ikki Sawamura

Gunziro Mitsuhasi

Arata Furuta

Heizo Sahara

Sousuke Takaoka

Yasoyosi Hioki

Details

Director

Takashi Miike

Screenplay

Daisuke Tengan

Tagline

"Take up your sword."

Status

Released

Original Language

JA

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$17,555,141

Production

TOHO, Sedic International, Toei Studios Kyoto, OLM, TV Asahi Music, IMAGICA, TV Asahi, dentsu, Shogakukan, The Asahi Shimbun, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Yahoo! Japan, TSUTAYA Group, Hiroshima Home Television, Sedic Deux, Raku Film, Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films, Japan Action Enterprise, Higashi Nippon Broadcasting, Shizuoka Asahi Television, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

January 26, 2015

★ 5/10

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

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sakmode

April 4, 2021

★ 6/10

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 battle at the film's climax in our hope to see Naritsugu brought to justice. Period Japan is depict...

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CinemaSerf

January 27, 2025

★ 7/10

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 instructions of his sibling - he has earned the enmity of veteran Samurai "Shinzaemon" (Kôji Yakusho) but wit...