Plot
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.
Cast
as Shinzaemon Shimada
as Shinrokuro Shimada
as Koyata
as Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira
as Tsuya / Upashi
as Kuranaga
as Kuzuro Hirayama
as Gunziro Mitsuhasi
as Heizo Sahara
as Yasoyosi Hioki
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Reviews
Much predictable and brutal. Just some action movie in which 13 guys kill by hundreds ...
Takashi Miike excels at creating true horror from the internal darkness of humanity and this is clearly evident in his brutal depiction of the villain of this movie, Lord Naritsugu. Through this characterization he establishes a strong motivation for us to stick around and witness the epic 45 minute battle at the film's climax in our hope to see Naritsugu brought to justice. Period Japan is depic…
Very much in the spirit of Kurosawa, Takashi Miike has assembled a strong cast to depict some fairly epic struggles for power in the 19th century Japanese shogunate. It's the brother of the Shogun who seems to be the source of the trouble. Having mercilessly murdered a family - against the instructions of his sibling - he has earned the enmity of veteran Samurai "Shinzaemon" (Kôji Yakusho) but wi…