JUSAN-NIN NO SHIKAKU
13 Assassins
Japan
2010
126 minutes
A retired samurai is asked to bring together in secret a special team of assassins to dispose of an arrogant, sadistic rural lord. Solid, no-nonsense if unspectacular samurai movie remaking a 1960s genre classic, shot like a western but with little of its director's usual offbeat touches.
A Hanway Films/Toho Company/TV Asahi Movie/SEDIC International presentation of a 13 Assassins Film Partners production. (Japanese distributor, Toho. World sales, Hanway Films.)
Starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Sosuke Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Kazuki Naimoka, Koen Kondo, Yuma Ishigaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takumi Saito, Shinnosuke Abe, Masaaki Uchino, Ken Mitsuishi, Ittoku Kishibe, Mikijiro Hira, Koshiro Matsumoto, Goro Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura.
Directed by Takashi Miike; produced by Michihiko Umezawa, Minami Ichikawa, Toichiro Shiraishi, Takahiro Ohno, Hirotsuga Yoshida, Shigeji Maeda; screenplay by Daisuke Tengan, based on the film directed by Eiichi Kudo and written by Shoichiro Ikemiya, Jusan-nin no Shikaku; music by Koji Endo; director of photography (colour, widescreen), Nobuyasu Kita; art director, Yuji Hayashida; costume designer, Kazuhiro Sawataishi; film editor, Kenji Yamashita.
Screened: Venice Film Festival advance press screening, Palazzo del Casinò - Sala Perla (Venice), September 8th 2010.
Japan
2010
126 minutes
A retired samurai is asked to bring together in secret a special team of assassins to dispose of an arrogant, sadistic rural lord. Solid, no-nonsense if unspectacular samurai movie remaking a 1960s genre classic, shot like a western but with little of its director's usual offbeat touches.
A Hanway Films/Toho Company/TV Asahi Movie/SEDIC International presentation of a 13 Assassins Film Partners production. (Japanese distributor, Toho. World sales, Hanway Films.)
Starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Sosuke Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Kazuki Naimoka, Koen Kondo, Yuma Ishigaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takumi Saito, Shinnosuke Abe, Masaaki Uchino, Ken Mitsuishi, Ittoku Kishibe, Mikijiro Hira, Koshiro Matsumoto, Goro Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura.
Directed by Takashi Miike; produced by Michihiko Umezawa, Minami Ichikawa, Toichiro Shiraishi, Takahiro Ohno, Hirotsuga Yoshida, Shigeji Maeda; screenplay by Daisuke Tengan, based on the film directed by Eiichi Kudo and written by Shoichiro Ikemiya, Jusan-nin no Shikaku; music by Koji Endo; director of photography (colour, widescreen), Nobuyasu Kita; art director, Yuji Hayashida; costume designer, Kazuhiro Sawataishi; film editor, Kenji Yamashita.
Screened: Venice Film Festival advance press screening, Palazzo del Casinò - Sala Perla (Venice), September 8th 2010.
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