13 Assassins
- Koji Yakusho: Shinzaemon Shimada
- Hiroki Matsukata: Saheita Kuranaga
- Takayuki Yamada: Shinrokurō Shimada
- Yusuke Iseya: Koyata Preschooler
- Tsuyoshi Ihara: Kujūrō Hirayama
- Kōen Kondō: Yahachi Horii
- Yuma Ishigaki: Gennai Higuchi
- Sōsuke Takaoka: Yasokichi Hioki
- Seiji Rokkaku: Mosuke Otake
- Ikki Sawamura: Gunjirō Mitsuhashi
- Kazuki Namioka: Rihei Ishizuka
- Arata Furuta: Heizo Sahara
- Masataka Kubota: Shōujirō Ogura
- Masachika Ichimura: Hanbei Kitou
- Gorō Inagaki: Naritsugu Matsudaira
13 Assassins (Japanese十 三 人 の 刺客, Jūsannin no Shikaku ) is a Japanese samurai film from director Takashi Miike from the year 2010. The plot of the film is based on a true story in Japan pre- Meiji period. The film is a remake of the eponymous samurai film by Eiichi Kudō from 1963 and repeatedly cited motives and attitudes of the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa, especially from Seven Samurai.
2009, the film received a nomination in the category " Best Film" at the 34th Japanese Academy Awards.
Background information
According to IMDb, the budget of the film was 6 million U.S. dollars. In contrast, a production budget of 20 million U.S. dollars is given to Filmstarts.de.
Publication
Compared to the Japanese version, 141 minutes running time, the global version has been shortened with 126 minutes to 15 minutes.
On September 9, 2010, the film had its premiere at the International Film Festival in Venice. In the following months, the film was shown at other film festivals.
Ins Japanese cinema, the film came on 25 September 2010.
In the United States, the film had its premiere at the Wisconsin Film Festival. On the opening weekend of 1 May 2011, the film achieved revenues of approximately $ 46,000 in the United States and walked on four screens. At 72 screens on the opening weekend of May 8, 2011, the film achieved revenues of around £ 124,000 in the UK.
On the Fantasy Filmfest Nights in Berlin, the film had its premiere in Germany on March 20, 2011. Deviates Here the indication from the Internet Movie Database from. There, the Fantasy Filmfest Nights in Munich is specified on 2 April 2011.