13 Assassins (2011)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 110 | Rotten: 5
Takashi Miike's electric remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 period action film is a wild spectacle executed with killer, dizzying panache.
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 2
Takashi Miike's electric remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 period action film is a wild spectacle executed with killer, dizzying panache.
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Cult director Takeshi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers 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 wartorn future. --(c) Magnet Pictures
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Cast
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Koji Yakusho
Shinzaemon Shimada -
Takayuki Yamada
Shinrokuro (Shinzaemon'... -
Yusuke Iseya
Koyata (13th Assassin f... -
Goro Inagaki
Lord Naritsugu Matsudai... -
Masachika Ichimura
Hanbei Kitou (Naritsugu... -
Mikijiro Hira
Sir Doi (Top Shogun Off... -
Hiroki Matsukata
Kuranaga -
Ikki Sawamura
Mitsuhashi -
Arata Furuta
Sahara (Samurai Who Req... -
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Hirayama (Shinzaemon's ... -
Masataka Kubota
Ogura (The Youngest Sam... -
Sousuke Takaoka
Hioki (Kuranaga's Subor... -
Seiji Rokkaku
Otake (Kuranaga's Subor... -
Kouen Kondo
Horii (Mitsuhashi's Sub... -
Yuma Ishigaki
Higuchi (Mitsuhashi's S... -
Kazuki Namioka
Ishizuka -
Kazue Fukiishi
Tsuya/Upashi (Shinrokur... -
Koshiro Matsumoto
Yukie Makino (Lord Owar... -
Mitsuki Tanimura
Chise Makino (Uneme's W... -
Takumi Saito
Uneme Makino -
Shinnosuke Abe
Genshiro Deguchi (Serva... -
Masaaki Uchino
Zusho Mamiya (Akashi El... -
Ken Mitsuishi
Asakawa (Naritsugu's He... -
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All Critics (117) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (5) | DVD (7)
Familiar though it may be, as samurai movies go, 13 Assassins" is a killer.
Top CriticThis slam-bang remake of a 1963 feature by Eichi Kudo builds slowly, accumulating characters and themes, then explodes into a prolonged and masterful battle sequence inside a deserted town.
One can pinpoint the exact moment when 13 Assassins transforms from vivid samurai drama to insane work of genius.
Epic. Unforgettable. Relentless. Magnificently entertaining.
Does Guinness World Records have an entry for longest on-screen fight? If it doesn't, Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" just set it. And if a record actually exists, Miike's film just broke it.
"13 Assassins" has what many action pictures need, a villain who transcends evil and ascends to a realm of barbaric madness.
Entirely too long, but the samurai game of cat and mouse, the strategizing, is fascinating.
...a big movie that will overwhelm you with its scope, and it's hard to imagine anyone topping it any time soon.
Consegue combinar uma abordagem mais clássica, tradicional, aos toques de violência bizarra típicas da filmografia de Miike.
13 Assassins evokes a classic filmmaking style sharpened by Takashi Miike's modern energy.
A much fresher experience than would seem likely for such a well-trod genre.
Miike's sadistic fetishization of violence and suffering is nowhere in evidence.
A wildly entertaining blockbuster that should appeal outside the extreme Asian cinema niche market.
I've seen enough of these samurai films to be in a position to say this one could be a considered a classic of the genre.
Though it might look like a Kurosawa film, Miike brings to it a subversive edge of greater proportions.
The excessive mind of Japanese director Takashi Miike (Audition; Ichi the Killer) throttles back the gore to deliver a disciplined, refreshingly grounded samurai action film.
Miike plays it by the age-old rules, and the result, while undeniably entertaining, is unexpectedly tame, at least by Miike standards
The once dormant samurai movie is rejuvenated in 13 Assassins, a spirited and violent romp which delves into the honour and savagery of samurai ideology.
13 Assassins looks at honour from many angles, without becoming simplistic. Ichii hasn't lost his edge after all.
I was engrossed by this film because it had tactics, strategy and characterisation.
It doesn't feel like the tour de force it should be.
The sense of loss, of waste, for a society, a culture, is just heartbreaking. That feeling is something special in a 21st century action picture.
It pounds with blood-drenched action, but director Takashi Miike also offers up a thoughtful exploration of honour and loyalty.
Audience Reviews for 13 Assassins
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- Shinzaemon Shimada: I shall accomplish your task...with magnificence.
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- Hanbei Kitou (Naritsugu's Head Samurai): Who are you? You're no samurai.
- Koyata (13th Assassin from the Forest): So what? Do only samurai matter in this world? I thought samurai would be fun but you bore me. You're useless, even more useless in great numbers.
- Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: [stabs him] This man speaks the truth. His reward is my short sword.
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