13 Assassins (2010): An Action Movie Masterpiece 

If you haven't seen this film by now, you have no idea what you're missing. One of my all time favorite samurai films, instant 10/10.

One of my favorite movies.

Such an amazing Movie, from the acting, the score, scenery and directing. A true masterpiece

This is the movie that sparked my interest in everything Japanese . It's one of my favorite movies of all time.

This movie is so underrated one of my favorite storyline and action is epic

One of the thing's I love about this movie is how it deals with the hypocrisy of the Bushido code. Under the code both sides are actually in the right and wrong at the same time. Hanbei and his Akashi samurai are bound to protect their lord no matter what, to the death. Shinzaemon and his assassins are also acting under the code of Bushido cause they have been given orders by Sir Doi Toshitsura. But unlike Hanbei, Shinzaemon is prepared to transcend the Bushido code and see his duty as to what is best for the country as a whole instead of just one lord. Hanbei knows that the right thing to do is stop Naritsugu, but he is not willing to transcend the code in order to do so himself. Because of their actions both men know that under the code, they are going to Hell. A fact that they both acknowledge in their final battle when they tell each other they will seen each other there

What fascinates me is how the actors use their eyes to struck fear in the hearts of the enemies.

The realism of that final duel and Yakusho Koji, who plays the main protagonist, his line before he kills his counterpart on the other side is awesome. It's the base reality of the world. This film is really great because it's visceral and the effects were all invisible. Great review!

Koyata has blood worms in him which make him immortal. Thats why he was left hanging in the forest because the bandit clan he was with couldn't kill him. So they left him up there to starve. This is also why he survies every attack on him.

Miiiiiike! Love his flicks :) Audition, Gozu, Rainy Dog, 13 Assassins, Happiness of The Katakuris and Izo are probably my personal favorites :) I love how 13 Assassins has a slow burn to start and EARNS all the crazy fighting for the last 30-45 mins. I own over 40 DVD's of Miike's and have seen over 70 of his movies, he is am amazing Director.

After watching this movie, my soda and popcorn turned into sake and sushi.

Great reviewing of a underrated epic that is highly rewatchable.!

Awesome job BB! I’ve been waiting for your review of this one. Thank you!

Well done. Great Review that conveys the basic segments of this Japanese Masterpiece. Where have the Men and Women gone; those who‘s sworn duty is to protect what is Noble, Truthful, Selfless, and Altruistic in a true Civilization? They, some of them at least, Observe from Above; amongst the Stars.

I rewatched it again last night. It was still amazing.

Great cinematography, music and action. Paced very much in a Miike way but quite beautifully here.

this was a great film. definitely one of my all time fav. Samurai movies.

Dont get much better than this.. A classic.. Subbed✌️☯️

One of the best and underrated samurai movies

İn my humble opinion this is the greatest samurai movie of all times

Koyata interpreted as a yokai of some description makes the most sense, as well as adding depth to the story. He cannot be a tengu, however, as according to legend, the tengu taught Minamoto no Yoshitune to fight with war fans and swords, yet Koyata only fights with rocks and sticks, never touching a bladed weapon.

I love showing this movie to people. Easy top 10 action movie all time. Prob top 5.

My biggest gripe with this movie was the bit where one of the samurai blows himself and a trapped Akashi samurai up where there’s apparently zero viscera and about 200 gallons of blood in them lmao, making a shower of blood on the neighboring house.

The bad guy is nasty but the whole purpose for the assassination of him is to hide a scandal instead of saving Japan from evil. The samurai did the mission because they were bored with their lives and some of them even did it for money. In the original movie it was pretty clear that the two groups are equally bad and full of s...t and at the end the only thing you'll get is madness, that's the reason why Kudo used similar camera shots for the beginning of the movie when a character killed himself and at the end when a crazy guy is walking alone on the rice's fields. The deaths of the samurai in the original were not heroic, far from it. In this Miike tried to make the whole thing closer to Seven Samurai when the point of the original was quite different. When I first watched the original movie I thought Eiichi Kudo was only copying a successful movie until I watched it again and realized that he used the same template to put the whole thing on his head.

Wait , you’re the only one so far that has showed the blood rain 🩸🩸🩸🩸🪽🩸🩸🪽 Coming over the roofs. Best commentary on this movie so far and they actually show the bloodbath coming over the roof.🩸🩸🩸🩸🍿

Love the channel... currently watching SHOGUNS SHADOW...might be worth a watch for you has Sonny Chiba in it..some fun action 🔥

Maybe in my top 10 favorite action films of all time.

Just saw this. Whoa. SO GOOD!!

This really a slow buner final 30 mins is fire

Btw, people, we are getting an anime adaptation by Miike of Onimusha game. Main character is supposedly Musashi Miyamoto who's modeled after Toshiro Mifune.

When you like this, you really should give Shogun's shadow from 1989 starring Sonny Chiba as bad guy a watch. It is so overlooked on RU-vid.

I have never hated a villain more in a movie. It is really incredible.

The movie is great, Blessed Be.

役者が良いよね。誰もが主役を張れる名優ばかり。

That outro had me busting up laughing ‘cause I logged off TikTok for that exact reason also I would love a top 10 Samurai-themed Anime list if you could

I researched rhis film again Two Westerns that come to mind are: The Wild Bunch, and Unforgiven.

Bloody love this movie.

I loved that movie!

Remake done right!

I love this movie. It't damn near perfect.But in my opinion, the cinematography and direction is excellent,the fighting magnificent, music and dialogue stop it from being perfection. They are great, just a notch behind perfection. What I especially don't like is the music when the lord kills the child and family in the banquet hall. It just takes you out of the gravity of that scene.

I liked this commentary however, if you do further research on Japan, you’ll understand why we dropped two bombs. Had we dropped a third one would be a very different world today. But do your research on Japan my son was the one that told me about it was pretty shocked and I’ve seen some other things about it. Research on Japan. And this is my favorite movie. I recommend this to anybody who is really pissed off about politics. Watch it for four years. It may make a difference. One thing I haven’t seen in the clips of this movie on RU-vid is there not showing the blood going over the roof of the buildings. Guess it’s to much. Best blood 🩸 bath movie 🍿 awesome fights 👍🏽❤️‍🔥

I can here for answers for Kiga Koyota not being dead because it’s random how he’s alive then I read an article about how he is a demon or affected by one

If only a live-action Batman film writer would pay attention to this and the live-action Rurouni Kenshin films. But they won't because they are willingly ignorant in their stagnation of Batman as a character.

I liked this commentary however, if you do further research on Japan, you’ll understand why we dropped two bombs. Had we dropped a third one would be a very different world today. But do your research on Japan my son was the one that told me about it was pretty shocked and I’ve seen some other things about it. Research on Japan. Wait you showed the blood 🩸 rain . Best commentary 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🫠

The original ghost of Tsushima movie

nu mi-a placut

not my kind of samurai movies...it's not traditional