13 Assassins
Original title: Jûsannin no shikaku · Turkish title: Jûsan-nin no shikaku
“Take up your sword.”
2010 · 2 h 21 min
Directed by 
Takashi Miike
Takashi MiikeCast
Koji Yakusho Takayuki Yamada 
Yusuke Iseya Goro Inagaki
Credits
Written by: Kaneo Ikegami
Plot
A samurai film nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice.
Sinekatalog’s take
Takashi Miike's samurai epic builds to a nearly hour-long final battle in a booby-trapped village. Gritty, bloody and tremendously exciting, it is a brilliant, bruising update of an old classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (72,388 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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