Take up your sword.

13 Assassins

Name: 13 Assassins
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Released: 2010-09-25
Duration: 141 min
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yūsuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki, Kazue Fukiishi

Japanese Cinema20102h 21mJapaneseTop 60% of Japanese Cinema budgets

45Standing

126th of 224 in Japanese Cinema

Reported gross: 55
Audience rating: 46
Momentum: 29

Out-grossed 55% of Japanese Cinema releases with reported figures ($18M).
Returned 2.9× its budget, against an industry median of 6.3×.
Momentum in the 29th percentile.
Audience rating 7.3 from 1,324 votes, the 46th percentile.

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Cost: $6M
Took: $18M

Against a Japanese Cinema median of 6.3×, so this one returned 0.5 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

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.

Released: 25 September 2010
Runtime: 2h 21m
Language: Japanese
Industry: Japanese Cinema

Top billedAll 27 credits

Koji YakushoShinzaemon Shimada
Takayuki YamadaShinrokuro Shimada
Yūsuke IseyaKoyata
Goro InagakiLord Naritsugu Matsudaira
Kazue FukiishiTsuya / Upashi
Hiroki MatsukataKuranaga

Made by

Director: Takashi Miike
Screenplay: Daisuke Tengan
Original Music Composer: Koji Endo
Director of Photography: Nobuyasu Kita
Producer: Minami Ichikawa, Tōichirō Shiraishi, Shigeji Maeda, Koji Yoshida, Michihiko Umezawa, Takahiro Ohno, Masaaki Ujô, 大野貴裕

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