13 Assassins
Take up your sword.
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.
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
- Studio: TOHO, Sedic International, Toei Studios Kyoto, OLM, TV Asahi Music, IMAGICA, TV Asahi, dentsu, Shogakukan, The Asahi Shimbun, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Television Hokkaido Broadcasting, Yahoo! Japan, TSUTAYA Group, Hiroshima Home Television, Sedic Deux, Raku Film, Recorded Picture Company, HanWay Films
- Keyword: suicide, mission, japan, assassin, samurai, immortality, swordsman, massacre, battle, samurai sword, seppuku, code of honor, ronin, kimono, jidaigeki, warrior, 19th century, harakiri, bakumatsu
- Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Hiroki Matsukata
