“Take up your sword.”
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.
Takashi Miike
Minami Ichikawa
Tōichirō Shiraishi
Shigeji Maeda
Daisuke Tengan
Nobuyasu Kita
Koji Endo
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
Rokkaku Seiji
Mosuke Otake
Kazuki Namioka
Rihei Ishizuka
... and 16 more
Andres Gomez
Much predictable and brutal. Just some action movie in which 13 guys kill by hundreds ...
sakmode
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...
CinemaSerf
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 instructi...
13 ASSASSINS Trailer
Trailer • YouTube
TOHO
Sedic International
Toei Studios Kyoto