13 Assassins (Blu-ray) R
Take up your sword.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 5, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Mikijirô Hira, Ikki Sawamura, Tsuyosi Ihara, Kazue Fukiishi, Ken Mitsuishi, Yûsuke Iseya, Masaaki Uchino & Hiroki Matsukata | |
Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
Screenwriting by | Daisuke Tengan | |
Composition by | Kôji Endô | |
Story by | Shoichiro Ikemiya | |
Director of Photography: | Nobuyasu Kita |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
13 Assassins looks at honour from many angles, without becoming simplistic. Ichii hasn't lost his edge after all.
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Sydney Morning Herald
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Miike ensures that once grace gives way to fury, every drop of blood split in defense of an honorable principle matters to the audience as much as it matters to the heroes losing their lives on-screen.
Washington Post
Rating: 3.7/5 --
Takashi Miike has created a reverential and vital film in a genre that many may have thought as moribund and passé as its subject.
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Spectrum Culture
13 ASSASSINS culminates in a riveting, ingeniously plotted, and inventively shot 45-minute battle scene that few contemporary Japanese directors besides Miike could pull off, either logistically or artistically
Film Comment
A stirring, unexpectedly moving story of love and blood....13 ASSASSINS is at once a tale of revenge and liberation...
New York Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The film is terrifically entertaining, an ambitious big-budget epic, directed with great visuals and sound by Takeshi Miike.
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: A- --
Though 13 Assassins' setup could stand some tightening, it's all necessary prelude to a spectacular, action-packed final hour where all hell breaks loose and the streets and rooftops flow with blood.
AV Club
Product Description:
Based on actual events that served as the inspiration for the 1963 film of the same name, Takashi Miike's 13 ASSASSINS follows a group of noble samurai as they seek to slay a tyrannical, politically connected lord before he seizes control of the entire country. Japan, 1844: as the era of the samurai winds to a close, a sadistic young lord uses his powerful political ties to commit heinous atrocities against the common people. Recognizing the dangers to both his country and its citizens should the lord manage to gain any more power, a concerned government official secretly recruits 13 of the most skilled swordsmen he can find to defeat the evil lord once and for all. But reaching their target won't be easy, because the elusive lord is constantly flanked by legions of fearless bodyguards. Realizing that the bodyguards would decimate his modest task force in a traditional battle, the assassins' leader (Koji Yakusho) lays an ingenious trap that will give his men the upper hand, and waits patiently for their prey to take the bait.
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- Sales Rank: 2,632
- UPC: 876964003940
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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