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Siskoid

An authentic samurai epic from director Takashi Miike. Owing something to both history and Seven Samurai, the film has an elder samurai assemble a team to kill the Shogun's decadent and psychotic brother whose actions threaten to end an era of peace. Some of the 13 are fairly generic (students of others, for example), but enough of them are distinctive to make their victories and defeats resonate, as the second half of the film takes us through a massive battle in real time. The violence is harsh and realistic, and Miike doesn't rely on music or editing to make his points. It's Spartan and thus much more subtle film-making. To my taste are the lasting ambiguities of the film, from the impervious mountain man's almost spirit-like appearance to the final smile to what happens after the credits fall. The more I think about 13 Assassins, the more I like it.

9 years ago

monty

If you liked this, make sure to watch the original by Eiichi Kudo: http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/jusan-nin+no+shikaku/ . It is great!

10 years 10 months ago

doanerdoan

I would prefer this as an action movie over any stupid 21th century hollywood action films. Very realistic, no bullshit awesome fight scenes. No boring stereotype characters. Even the villains have something interesting to say. People who can't just understand the characters is probably because they are very unfamiliar with the peace era feudal-japan people, they were not westerners so stop judging the characters like they would act like one. Jeez, try to judge characters in their own conditions.

11 years ago

seithscott

Excellent Samurai movie. Kurosawa would have been proud.

12 years 6 months ago

sushantv10

"Total Massacre"

13 years 5 months ago

Emiam

7/10
Critically acclaimed samurai film - really good.

4 years 6 months ago

monty

Takashi Miike on why he decided to do this film:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/may/05/takeshi-miike-japanese-samurai-classics

9 years 4 months ago

AstorSapolsky

For those who are asking (not really a spoiler, though you guys already spoiled it), the woodsman/peasant who joined them was a demigod.

12 years 11 months ago

Scratch47

Good film, incredible last 40 minutes.

13 years ago

DJPowWow

I'm sure this was already said, but adding "aka: 13 Assassins" would make this movie so much easier to search for.

Fairly well done samurai epic, the only sticking point for me was the mountain-man character, who seemed like a thinly veiled Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune's character from "Seven Samurai"). He became too much like comic relief, and shows up only in the last half of the film, when up to that point everything had been so deadly serious... it's some major mood-whiplash when he shows up. And judging from one deleted scene on the DVD, his ridiculousness was only barely touched upon in the final film...

13 years ago

CaptYamato

dombrewer,

He was a tree spirit.

13 years 2 months ago

idjutt

THE best action movie since 1986.

11 years 11 months ago

-TJ-

Wow, never seen a movie with a fighting scene this long

12 years 2 months ago

Annesemj

fantastic movie. shows the directing versatility of miike as well

12 years 11 months ago

TheLazy1

Verhoeff, please don't blame your inability to relate to the characters on being from Western Europe. I'm from Western Europe, too, and that didn't stop me from appreciating this film on every level, and that includes liking the characters. (I sincerely hope that didn't sound patronizing. Sorry if it did.)

13 years 1 month ago