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ASSASSINS |
Year: 2010
USA: Magnolia Pictures
UK: Artificial Eye
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Goro
Inagaki,Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Hira,Hiroki Matsukata, Ikki
Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masataka Kubota, Sousuke
Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Koen Kondo, Yuma Ishigaki, Kazuki
Namioka,Kazue Fukiishi, Koshiro Matsumoto, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takumi
Saito, Shinnosuke Abe, Masaaki Uchino, Ken Mitsuishi
Director: Takashi Miike
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 126 mins
USA Rated: R for sequences of bloody violence, some
disturbing images and brief nudity
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong bloody violence
USA Release Date: 29 April 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 6 May 2011
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Synopsis
"Take up your sword."
Cult director Takeshi Miike (ICHI THE KILLER, AUDITION) delivers 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 thus preventing him from ascending to the throne and
plunging the country into a future locked in war
Principal photography for 13 ASSASSINS was accomplished in summer
2009 on a large open-air set in Tsuruoka in the Yamagata Prefecture
in northern Japan. The film is a remake of Eichi Kudo’s 1963
black-and-white movie of the same name, JUSAN-NIN NO SHIKAKU.
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