13 Assassins
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 16, 2016
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Yûsuke Iseya, Masataka Kubota, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazue Fukiishi, Tsuyosi Ihara, Kôji Yakusho, Masaaki Uchino, Mikijirô Hira, Ikki Sawamura, Takayuki Yamada & Ken Mitsuishi | |
Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
Screenwriting by | Daisuke Tengan | |
Composition by | Kôji Endô | |
Story by | Shoichiro Ikemiya | |
Director of Photography: | Nobuyasu Kita |
Entertainment Reviews:
13 ASSASSINS culminates in a riveting, ingeniously plotted, and inventively shot 45-minute battle scene that few contemporary Japanese directors besides Miike could pull off, either logistically or artistically
Film Comment
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.
Los Angeles Times
3 star out of 5 -- [T]he climactic 45-minute free-for-all is genuinely spectacular...
Total Film
A stirring, unexpectedly moving story of love and blood....13 ASSASSINS is at once a tale of revenge and liberation...
New York Times
Takashi Miike's samurai adventure 13 ASSASSINS is so beautifully made, it could serve as a model for contemporary American action films.
Movieline
Rating: B+ --
Familiar though it may be, as samurai movies go, 13 Assassins" is a killer.
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Detroit News
Rating: 3.7/5 --
Takashi Miike has created a reverential and vital film in a genre that many may have thought as moribund and passé as its subject.
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Spectrum Culture
Product Description:
Based on actual events that served as the inspiration for the 1963 film of the same name, Takashi Miike's 13 ASSASSINS follows a group of noble samurai as they seek to slay a tyrannical, politically connected lord before he seizes control of the entire country. Japan, 1844: as the era of the samurai winds to a close, a sadistic young lord uses his powerful political ties to commit heinous atrocities against the common people. Recognizing the dangers to both his country and its citizens should the lord manage to gain any more power, a concerned government official secretly recruits 13 of the most skilled swordsmen he can find to defeat the evil lord once and for all. But reaching their target won't be easy, because the elusive lord is constantly flanked by legions of fearless bodyguards. Realizing that the bodyguards would decimate his modest task force in a traditional battle, the assassins' leader (Koji Yakusho) lays an ingenious trap that will give his men the upper hand, and waits patiently for their prey to take the bait.
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- Sales Rank: 107,275
- UPC: 876964010207
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