---
title: '13 Assassins (2010)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Takashi Miike'
released: '2010-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 120
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/13-assassins-2010'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1436045/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# 13 Assassins (2010)

2010 · 120 min · Drama, Action · United Kingdom, Japan

Original title: 十三人の刺客

## Synopsis

13 Assassins  is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki. A remake of Eiichi Kudo's 1963 Japanese period drama film 13 Assassins, it is set in 1844 toward the end of the Edo period in which a group of thirteen assassins—comprising twelve samurai and a hunter—secretly plot to assassinate Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu, the murderous leader of the Akashi clan, to thwart his appointment to the powerful Shogunate Council.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Takashi Miike](https://cinepixo.com/people/takashi-miike)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kōji Endō](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-endo)
- **Producer:** [Jeremy Thomas](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeremy-thomas)
- **Director of Photography:** [Kita Nobuyasu](https://cinepixo.com/people/kita-nobuyasu)

## Cast

- [Hiroki Matsukata](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroki-matsukata)
- [Sousuke Takaoka](https://cinepixo.com/people/sousuke-takaoka)
- [Kōen Kondō](https://cinepixo.com/people/koen-kondo)
- [Yuma Ishigaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuma-ishigaki)
- [Masachika Ichimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/masachika-ichimura)
- [Ikki Sawamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/ikki-sawamura)
- [Kōji Yakusho](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-yakusho)
- [Yūsuke Iseya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yusuke-iseya)
- [Kazuki Namioka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazuki-namioka)
- [Arata Furuta](https://cinepixo.com/people/arata-furuta)
- [Mikijirō Hira](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikijiro-hira)
- [Tsuyoshi Ihara](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsuyoshi-ihara)
- [Takayuki Yamada](https://cinepixo.com/people/takayuki-yamada)
- [Gorō Inagaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/goro-inagaki)

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Official site: http://13assassins.jp/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/13-assassins-2010
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