13 Assassins

13 Assassins

Take up your sword.

Rating

2.5 (1)

Release Date

9/9/2010

Runtime

141 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$17,555,141

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How It Feels

Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.

A stately, ritualistic samurai epic that builds from quiet sacrifice toward a climactic battle of operatic scale. This is a film that honors its characters' choices even as it explores the weight of duty and the violence required to prevent greater violence.

Mood

DefiantEpicTenseMournful

Themes

RedemptionMortalityPower

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

FormalistPainterlyWidescreen epic

Structure

Ensemble

Heads up

Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harm

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

an interest film but it generally i found myself unbothered with what was going on screen and its more so interesting for the parts that are the usual takashi miike affairs. i don't care for anything going on that much and as someone who can be invested in takashi miike's flashy blood and sexual images....this is fairly decent yet not much more then that even tho that flashy blood and sexual images are still good. i also really liked the cast. the 2nd act is especially dull even if its not entirely bad.

generally the main problem is that the cast, while fantastic ultimately do the heavy lifting, while its screenplay i would say is good in a lot of area's, it also leaves a lot of characterization too the actors and not everyone succeeds while they are good.

(watch my filmography: https://boxd.it/2A45h )

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