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13 Assassins
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #712
- IMDb #1111
- Rotten Tomatoes #404
- Metacritic #411
- Letterboxd #814
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #402
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #801
- Metacritic Critics #450
- Metacritic Audience #626
- Criticker #730
- Kinopoisk #2191
- AlloCiné #1358
- Trakt #1079
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 61, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95. Critics average 90, everyone else 77.
See the most agreed on films →In feudal Japan, a sadistic young lord is poised to ascend to a seat of power, threatening to plunge the nation into chaos. A veteran samurai is secretly hired to assassinate him. He assembles a team of twelve other samurai to ambush the lord and his massive personal army on their journey home.
Details
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Writer
- Daisuke Tengan
- Based on
- 13 Assassins
- Studio
- TOHO, Sedic International, Toei Studios Kyoto, OLM
- Released
- 25 September 2010
- Country
- Japan, United Kingdom
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $17.6M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 15 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 23 →8 wins from 23 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films 2012 | Best Production Design | Yûji Hayashida | Nominee |
| Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films 2012 | Best Director | Takashi Miike | Nominee |
| Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films 2012 | Best Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita | Nominee |
| Online Film Critics Society 2012 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee | |
| Asian Film Awards 2011 | Best Director | Takashi Miike | Nominee |
| Asian Film Awards 2011 | Best Actor | Koji Yakusho | Nominee |
| Asian Film Awards 2011 | Best Editor | Kenji Yamashita | Nominee |
| Asian Film Awards 2011 | Best Production Design | Hayashida Yuji | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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23 awards — 13 Assassins
×| Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction | Yûji Hayashida | Winner |
| Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita | Winner |
| Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction | Winner | |
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording | Jun Nakamura | Winner |
| Director of the Year | Takashi Miike | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing | Kenji Yamashita | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Music | Kōji Endō | Nominee |
| Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Koji Yakusho | Nominee |
| Picture of the Year | Nominee | |
| Screenplay of the Year | Daisuke Tengan | Nominee |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Best Screenplay | Daisuke Tengan | Winner |
| Best Production Design | Hayashida Yuji | Winner |
| Best Actor | Koji Yakusho | Nominee |
| Best Director | Takashi Miike | Nominee |
| Best Editor | Kenji Yamashita | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita | Nominee |
| Best Director | Takashi Miike | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Yûji Hayashida | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |