Synopsis:

In the era of the Shogun, an evil young lord rapes and kills, assured of immunity by law. But he didn’t count on the Thirteen Assassins. A feared secret force, each with their own deadly skill, the Assassins undertake a suicide mission to wipe out the Lord. As he embarks on a perilous journey, the Assassins close off his escape route and ambush him in a village of death. But little do they know, they are outnumbered four to one by the Lord’s crack team of bodyguards.

[via Wildgrounds & CinemaAsia]

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Sanspo has released the first pictures from the cast and set of Takashi Miike’s remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 classic Thirteen Assassins starring Koji Yakusho, Hiroki Matsukata, Yusuke Iseya, Takayuki Yamada, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Arata Furuta, Ikki Sawamura, Sousuke Takaoka, Yuma Ishigaki, Masataka Kubota, Seiji Rokkaku, Kazuki Namioka and Koen Kondo.

[via @ryuganji (Don Brown)]

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Full trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano’s Tajomaru based on the short story ‘In a Grove’ by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. I’ve posted the first teaser trailer and a short synopsis back in May.

[of course via Nippon Cinema]

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Warner Japan has released a first teaser trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano’s Tajomaru. The film is based on the short story ‘In a Grove’ by Ryunosuke Akutagawa which Akira Kurosawa also based his 1950 Rashomon on.
Luckily, this won’t be another remake but rather a new backstory for the bandit Tajomaru that takes place before the crime discussed in Kurosawa’s classic.

[via Nippon Cinema]

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