13 Assassins

Release Date:

Apr 29, 2011

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

2:06

Genre:

Action,Adventure,Historical Drama

Director:

Takashi Miike

Cast:

Koji Yakusho	Shinzaemon Shimada
Takayuki Yamada	Shinrouko
Yusuke Iseya	Koyata
Goro Inagaki	Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira
Mikijiro Hira	Sir Doi
Hiroki Matsukata	Kuranaga
Ikki Sawamura	Mitsuhashi
Arata Furuta	Sahara
Tsuyoshi Ihara	Hirayama
Sosuke Takaoka	Hioki
Masachika Ichimura	Hanbei Kitou
Masataka Kubota	Ogura

Producers:

Toshiaki Nakazawa , Jeremy Thomas , Takashi Hirajô , Minami Ichikawa , Tôichirô Shiraishi , Michihiko Yanagisawa

Writers:

Daisuke Tengan

Language:

English

Official Website:

http://www.13assassins.com/

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In this remake of a 1963 film based on historical events, Shinzaemon Shimada leads a team of assassins in 19th-century Japan to eliminate the ruthless Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is wreaking havoc against his own people. Hired secretly by a government official hoping to end Matsudaira's reign of terror, Shimada recruits the best samurai in Japan and then sets a trap for the lord's large contingent of faithful bodyguards.

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