2010 · action · drama
13 Assassins
Directed by Takashi Miike2h 21m2010
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.
Our read: 13 Assassins (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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