Miike has delivered one of his very best films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2023

"13 Assassins could end up being Miike's masterpiece. It's that good."

| Jul 2, 2021

It's clear that the exhilarating 50-minute climax battle is both the director's forte and his primary passion.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Rather than being a simple action movie, it is all a bloody samurai film that revives the chambara genre. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

...the film offers far more than cheap thrills and violent spectacle. 13 Assassins brings men to the crux of their beliefs and forces them to live out the reality of their choices in battle.

| Apr 2, 2020

Takashi Miike has created a reverential and vital film in a genre that many may have thought as moribund and passé as its subject.

| Original Score: 3.7/5 | Nov 6, 2019

13 Assassins is a samurai movie dedicated to giving you what you expect in a samurai movie

| Sep 16, 2019

A non-stop, thrill-a-second, blood-soaked treat.

| Mar 6, 2019

You've seen this film before, many times.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2019

It's a reverent throwback to the great 1950s-'60s Japanese samurai films, and it's done in neutral shades of gray and white and tan and black.

| Oct 30, 2018

Miike has a unique way of making even this historical violence both gross and engrossing.

| May 16, 2018

... Miike's work is impressive... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2018

As this finale makes clear, Miike is well aware of the conventionality of "13 Assassins" and clearly is comfortable following and continuing its form.

| Nov 16, 2017

... a superbly executed but straightforward men on a mission film where the increasingly outmoded ideals of duty and honor and meaning through sacrifice are at the heart of the matter.

| May 19, 2016

Mr. Miike has done such a remarkable job with the overall saga and the characters that one can't help but become emotionally invested.

| Oct 7, 2015

Phenomenally entertaining. A ripping old-school yarn.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Culminates in a riveting, ingeniously plotted, and inventively shot 45-minute battle scene.

| Nov 7, 2013

Miike shows us the absurdity of war by showing us the thrill of war.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 23, 2013

Invoking the Kurosawa’s name is not entirely the sacrilege it sounds. Miike’s scope here treads in similar epic waters, displaying a respect for tradition and a surprisingly strong development of, and sympathy for, character.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 4, 2012

Consegue combinar uma abordagem mais clssica, tradicional, aos toques de violncia bizarra tpicas da filmografia de Miike.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2012