A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
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★★★★★
In feudal Japan, the heir to the current Shogun, Lord Naritsugu, is a sadistic devil, raping and murdering at will – doesn't matter if it's peasants, samurai families or anywhere in-between – and because of his standing, nobody will stand up to him. Until samu...
★★★★★
Samurai films tend to lean toward either overly talkative and boring or hyper-stylized to the point that credibility comes into question. Striking that middle ground, however, can lead to greatness, or rather — great honor. Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" might...
★★★★★
This film was a dark-edged delight from beginning to end when I saw it at the 2010 edition of TIFF. The audience there loved it too, breaking out into spontaneous applause during several scenes.
Solid direction by Miike, great characters, beautifully shot and...
★★★★★
In 1844, the peace of the Feudal Japan is threatened by the cruel Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira (Gorô Inagaki) that is politically rising and getting closer to his half-brother, the shogun. After the harakiri of Namiya clan leader, the samurai Shinzaemon Shimada (...
★★★★★
I'm a huge fan of Takashi Miike, so I was very excited to be able to attend a sneak peek of his latest film. Miike's one of those directors who seems to be trying to make at least one film in every style, and this latest is his foray into the classic "samurai...
