13 Assassins

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"5 Stars. Wow, wow, wow."

-Time Out NY

"*****"

-Columbia Daily Tribune

"Insanely Entertaining"

-Capital Times

"insane work of genius"

-Dallas Morning News

"**** Epic. Unforgettable. Relentless. Magnificently entertaining."

-Star Tribune

"CRITIC’S PICK. Does Guinness World Records have an entry for longest on-screen fight? If it doesn’t, Takashi Miike’s “13 Assassins” just set it."

-Washington Post

"3 ½ Stars. TERRIFICALLY ENTERTAINING."

-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"*****"

-Mountain Xpress

"BRILLIANT"

-San Francisco Chronicle

"CRAZY FUN"

-The Salt Lake Tribune

"The climactic battle is crazy enough to make even Quentin Tarantino bow down with envy 13 Assassins is a SAVAGE, INSANE movie — in the best way possible."

-Miami Herald

"****. SUBLIME"

-Philadelphia Inquirer

"****. Thrilling warrior epic with killer battle scenes."

-Philadelphia Inquirer

"Kinetic film-making of a high order."

-The Guardian

"MASTERFUL"

-The Boston Globe

"EXCELLENT"

-The Wall Street Journal

"A stirring, unexpectedly moving story of love and blood."

-Manohla Dargis, NY Times

"A REAL TREAT. The final battle sequence is quite something to behold."

-SF Chronicle

"The final battle sequence is quite SOMETHING TO BEHOLD."

-SF Chronicle

"BRILLIANTLY VIOLENT and VIOLENTLY BRILLIANT"

-The List

"13 ASSASSINS is a stone-cold, limb-severin', bull-burnin' masterpiece."

-AINT IT COOL NEWS

"A CLASSIC SAMURAI FILM"

-Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

"Takashi Miike is in TOP, SLASHTASTIC FORM"

-Leslie Felperin, Variety

"13 ASSASSINS IS PURE PLEASURE. It culminates in a magnificent 45-minute showdown that has to be the best final battle sequence in cinema since, oh Kill Bill at least."

-Lee Marshall, Screendaily.com

"IT DELIVERS SUCH INTENSITY THAT IT’S HARD TO BREATH, THAT IT’S DIFFICULT NOT TO STAND UP AND CHEER. There are few samurai films (classic or modern) that are as satisfying as this one."

-Cole Abaius, Filmschoolrejects.com

"THE FILM IS A RELENTLESS LOCOMOTIVE. Enthralling and entertaining."

-Glenn Heath, Jr., Slantmagazine.com

About The Film

Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a “masterful exercise in cinematic butchery” (New York Post) – is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord in order to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.