The build up to this death trap is long and there is little actual action unless you count a brief skirmish with bandits and Naritsugu’s archery execution of an entire family. If a man has lived his life in vain, then how trivial his life is. “It’s magnificent. ( Log Out /  He constantly complains that, as a group, samurai are dull and boring, even useless. The power of violence in art is precisely that many aims can find some satisfactory expression in the pull of the trigger or the swing of the sword. Naritsugu says this halfway through the fight, and it’s clear he feels the same excitement. The circumstances have been made just right. Share to Twitter. HeadStuff.org is a collaborative hub for the creative and the curious. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. The film stages the greatest and most spectacular fight you would ever want to see while making its purpose the elimination of someone who believes violence could be purifying. Initially stricken by the sight of the crippled woman his horror turns to joy as the enormity of both his task and the potential honor it will bring him stretches out before him. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 67ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia, https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13_assassini&oldid=112479933, Voci con template Collegamenti esterni e molti collegamenti, licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo. Miike invests this time in exploring some but not all of the samurai heading to their deaths. Well and truly lost they stumble upon a bold and filthy hunter trapped in a wooden cage hung from a tree. 13 assassini (Jûsan-nin no shikaku) è un film del 2010 diretto da Takashi Miike, remake del film omonimo del 1963 diretto da Eiichi Kudo. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Something wonderful has come to my mind… Once I’m on the Shogun’s council, let’s bring back the age of war.”. The town of Ochiai is destroyed and over 200 corpses are spread throughout it. 13 Assassins -- "Total Massacre" Menu. There’s something deep within us that wants to see great feats achieved in noble, decisive action. You can’t stop believing it might well be like that, and we’ll always head back to stories with that aspiration. Audiences don’t want might to make right, at least not “the stronger” putting an end to the weak; they expect a test of wills, and for fate (or the artist) to grant the good guys the final triumph only after it has been earned. Is he wrong, though? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Miike shoots everything but the short tanto blade actually carving a line through the samurai’s stomach wall. Unlike Naritsugu and his men, they plead for mercy. CAPTION. There are exceptions of course and 13 Assassins, with its two-month shooting schedule, is one of the longest exceptions. He cuts off the arms and legs of a woman, he kills a man after violating his wife, and he shoots arrows at close range, one by one, into an entire group of peasants. However, this battle is anything but conventional and the village’s narrow alleys, cramped interiors and high roofs work to the assassins’ advantage. Trama. But Naritsugu is an aesthete, after all, and he’s reached an artistic conclusion. Once the movie has set up all it needs to, and the time for violence is at hand—when the words that got me in the theater were about to be realized—the leader of the assassins, Shinzaemon, looking down at Naritsugu and his 200 bodyguards, unfurls a banner. They have a target on their backs from the opening stanzas. Share to Reddit.

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