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.
- 7.3
- 2010
- Released
- 2h 21m
Koji Yakusho
Shinzaemon Shimada
Takayuki Yamada
Shinrokuro Shimada
Yūsuke Iseya
Koyata
Goro Inagaki
Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira
Kazue Fukiishi
Tsuya / Upashi
Hiroki Matsukata
Kuranaga
Tsuyoshi Ihara
Kuzuro Hirayama
Ikki Sawamura
Gunziro Mitsuhasi
Arata Furuta
Heizo Sahara
Sousuke Takaoka
Yasoyosi Hioki
Rokkaku Seiji
Mosuke Otake
Kazuki Namioka
Rihei Ishizuka
Koen Kondo
Yahachi Horii
Yuma Ishigaki
Gennai Higuchi
Masataka Kubota
Shoziro Ogura
Masachika Ichimura
Hanbei Onigashira
Matsumoto Hakuō II
Yukie Makino
Seiyo Uchino
Zusho Mamiya
Ken Mitsuishi
Zoudayu Asakawa
Ittoku Kishibe
Yatokube Sanshu
Mikijiro Hira
Lord Doi
Mitsuki Tanimura
Chiyo Makino
Takumi Saitoh
Uneme Makino
Shinnosuke Abe
Minamotosiro Ideguchi
Meguru Katô
Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Megumi Kagurazaka
Otake
Hajime Inoue
Released
ja
$6,000,000.00
$17,555,141.00
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- #ronin
- #kimono
- #jidaigeki
- #edo period
- #warrior
- #19th century
- #harakiri
- #bakumatsu
Reviews
Very much in the spirit of Kurosawa, Takashi Miike has assembled a strong cast to depict some fairly epic struggles for power in the 19th century Japanese shogunate. It's the brother of the Shogun who seems to be the source of the trouble. Having mercilessly murdered a family - against the instructions of his sibling - he has earned the enmity of veteran Samurai "Shinzaemon" (Kôji Yakusho) but wit
Takashi Miike excels at creating true horror from the internal darkness of humanity and this is clearly evident in his brutal depiction of the villain of this movie, Lord Naritsugu. Through this characterization he establishes a strong motivation for us to stick around and witness the epic 45 minute battle at the film's climax in our hope to see Naritsugu brought to justice. Period Japan is depict
Much predictable and brutal. Just some action movie in which 13 guys kill by hundreds ...