13 Assassins (1963 film)
| 13 Assassins Jūsan-nin no shikaku | |
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| Directed by | Eiichi Kudo |
| Screenplay by | Kaneo Ikegami |
| Produced by | Kanji Amao Jun'ichirō Tamaki |
| Starring | Takayuki Akutagawa Chiezō Kataoka Kōtarō Satomi |
| Cinematography | Jūhei Suzuki |
| Edited by | Shintarō Miyamoto |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
Release date | 1963 |
Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
13 Assassins (Japanese: 十三人の刺客, romaji: Jūsan-nin no shikaku) is a 1963 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Eiichi Kudo.
Plot
13 samurai plan to assassinate a sadistic feudal lord.
Cast
- Takayuki Akutagawa as Narrator
- Chiezō Kataoka as Shinzaemon Shimada
- Kōtarō Satomi as Shinrokurō Saimada
- Ryōhei Uchida as Hanbei Onigashira
- Tetsurō Tanba
- Satomi Oka
- Yuriko Mishima
- Sumiko Fuji (as Junko Fuji) as Kayo
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
- Michitarō Mizushima
- Kunio Kaga
- Seishiro Sawamura
- Kusuo Abe
- Shingo Yamashiro as Koyata Koga
- Kōshirō Harada
- Shunji Kasuga
- Ushio Akashi
- Eijirō Kataoka
- Ryūji Kita
- Ryōsuke Kagawa
- Kantarō Suga as Naritsugu
- Shun'ya Wazaki
- Hiroshi Mizuno
- Michimaro Kotabe
- Tsukie Matsuura
- Noboru Aihara
- Masao Hori
- Kinnosuke Takamatsu
- Akira Shioji as Horii
- Masaharu Arikawa
- Mitsugu Fujii
- Ryōzō Tanaka
- Kandō Arashi
- Kunio Hikita
- Kyōnosuke Murai
- Masuo Kamiki
- Jun Harukawa
- Ren Takahashi
- Ryōnosuke Doi
- Masaru Fujiwara
- Isamu Dobashi
- Hiroshi Kasuga
- Kanjūrō Arashi as Saheita Kuranaga
- Kō Nishimura as Kujūrō Hirayama
- Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Makino
- Isao Natsuyagi (uncredited)
Remake
The film was remade in 2010 by Takashi Miike. The remake was met with critical acclaim.
References
External links
- 13 Assassins at IMDb