15 - 141mins - Action/Adventure/drama-6 May 2011
Film I like do seem I am, I am still yet to see Akira Kurosawa seven Samurai - a work which has supposedly chamois spawned many films since and is widely regarded as one of the first films to introduce the plot of structures such as the recruitment of a group of characters to achieve a specific objective and having a main hero to undertake a task unrelated to the main plot. 13 Assassins looks at this film which he has clearly been influenced by.
The story follows the efforts of a group of Samurai that they seek to kill the evil Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki) whose malice and monstrosities against its people know no bounds. Unable to receive Naritsugu because of its links with the former and current shogun, a senior politician realizes that he be stopped before it gets a higher rank and becomes an even more dangerous threat. He secretly enrolled the help of a Samurai confidence Shinzaemon Shimada (Kôji Yakusho) to bring together a group of Samurai with the task of eliminating the Naritsugu.
Despite me is not the best judge the way of the Samurai, I was not born in the 1840s to the Japan, I felt that the 13 killers described what it could have been as during this period. Setting the film in a time of relative peace was a good choice because it meant that many of the samurai had no life real experience or expertise who have given their depth more are trained to kill battle and some machines still of them, they never even killed.
The main table of this film is the battle sequences and action plans which are impressive to say the least. The whole film is essentially adopting on stage a long struggle with the first half defining characters and the last time being dedicated to the scene of the battle. There is a bit of gore to keep an eye on for the scenes of fighting and others with many members being severed and a lot of guts on show. The scenes of fighting are well made although if I were to find fault, I should like to say to the points that he felt as he Samurai fought wave after that wave of enemies leading up to it feel a bit "samey" and place the right position for Naritsugu Samurai felt compelled to reduce their way through the footmen first when they could have gone for him immediately. But that's just me nitpicking.
The number of unfamiliar Japanese names being mentioned with the fact that the Samurai all wear similar clothes and have the same hair cut while having to spend the time to read subtitles, rather than look can lead to some confusion. This fall well so that the film advance, as the characters take on individual personalities particularly the Group of Samurai.
Credit must go to the Director, Takashi Miike, who not only created a beautiful film cinematography and direction, but has also the honour, tradition and way of life of the samurai and Japanese culture of the viewer in emphatic way. Awesome combat, solid acting and stage capacity of hesitation not far the gore lead me to give this one...
Rating: B +
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