13 Assassins
Directed by Takashi Miike
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.
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13 Assassins Trivia
13 Assassins was released on September 25, 2010.
13 Assassins was directed by Takashi Miike.
13 Assassins has a runtime of 2h 21m.
13 Assassins was produced by Minami Ichikawa, Tōichirō Shiraishi, Shigeji Maeda, Takahiro Ohno, Masaaki Ujô, Michihiko Umezawa, Koji Yoshida, 大野貴裕.
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.
The key characters in 13 Assassins are Shinzaemon Shimada (Koji Yakusho), Shinrokuro Shimada (Takayuki Yamada), Koyata (Yūsuke Iseya).
13 Assassins is rated R.
13 Assassins is an Action, Adventure, Drama film.
13 Assassins has an audience rating of 8.8 out of 10.
13 Assassins had a budget of $6M.
13 Assassins has made $17.6M at the box office.