10th New York Asian Film Festival

Jul 1-14, 2011

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New York Premiere

13 Assassins: Director's Cut

十三人の刺客

The complete UNCUT version of Takashi Miike’s samurai masterpiece about a group of assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord and defeat his army. With 17 minutes of original footage restored. This is the movie Miike was born to make. He’s always been a classical director, and with 13 Assassins, he reveals to the world what the rest of us have always known: he is one of the planet’s finest classical directors. A remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film, 13 Assassins is the ultimate samurai movie. Once it’s finished you really don’t need to see any others.

Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Yusuke Iseya, Takayuki Yamada, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Hiroki Matsukata
Languages: Japanese with English subtitles
2010; 141 min.

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 2, 4:30pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Star Takayuki Yamada will appear