13 Assassins
Director: Takashi Miike
Genre: Action, Samurai cinema, Epic, Action/Adventure, Thriller, World cinema, Martial arts, Drama, Adventure, Japanese Movies, Historical fiction
Year: 2010
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Yusuke Iseya, Kazuki Namioka, Yuma Ishigaki, Hiroki Matsukata, Masachika Ichimura, Arata Furuta, Ikki Sawamura, Koen Kondo, Masataka Kubota, Seiji Rokkaku, Nizaemon Kataoka, Takayuki Yamada, Goro Inagaki, Sousuke Takaoka, Mikijiro Hira, Ikki Namioka
13 Assassins (十三人の刺客, Jūsannin no Shikaku) is a 2010 Japanese-British jidaigeki film directed by Takashi Miike.
A samurai epic with a loose historical basis, the film was produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa, who also produced the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Departures. Jeremy Thomas, the film's executive producer, has a reputation for successfully bringing Asian titles into the international market, most notably Bernardo Bertolucci's nine-time Oscar winner The Last Emperor, Nagisa Ôshima's Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and Takeshi Kitano's Brother.
The film is a remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 black-and-white Japanese film of the same name, Jûsan-nin no shikaku. The screenplay was written by Daisuke Tengan.
The film stars Koji Yakusho, whose credits include Memoirs of a Geisha and Shall We Dance, along with Takayuki Yamada, Hiroki Matsukata, and Kazuki Namioka.
It was nominated for Best Film at the 34th Japan Academy Prize.
It is the third film in which Yamada and Takaoka co-starred, the first two being Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2, both directed by Miike.
1840s Japan. It is a time of peace and the era of the samurai is waning. A sadistic young Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu
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