Film Review: 13 Assassins
Set in 1844, the twilight of Japan’s Edo period, Takashi Miike’s remake of Eichi Kudo’s 1963 Jusan-nin no shikaku (1963) is the 19th-century mirror of his modern-day yakuza picture Ichi the Killer (2001): cruel, bloody and utterly relentless.
Source: Film Journal
