13 Assassins
 

Any fans of Takashi Miike here? Anyone else ever seen 13 Assassins? It's a Japanese Samurai film about the end of the Samurai era and how 13 Samurais got together to prevent a truly evil man from becoming their ruler. It is BRUTAL and it is AWESOME! The villain in it is incredibly evil and I mean one of the most evil characters I have ever seen. If you can't take a lot of violence though I don't know if I would recommend it. It's like Kill Bill on roids, hgh, and any other performance enhancing substance. Just curious if there are any other fans of it here and if you've not seen it I just can not recommend it enough.

Yes & yes! That movie is sooooooooooo dope. Been meaning to re-watch it this week, actually. Takashi at his best, really. It retains that signature high octane violence of his without being bogged down by cheesiness, even if it does have some over the top moments (like the amputee).

Yeah it's SO dang good! I've watched it multiple times as well. Naritsugu is insanely evil. When he's shooting that family with the bow it just really makes you wanna kill him. Roger Ebert wrote a great review for the film and really analyzes it well. I thought the amputee part was just pretty sickening too. I think Tarantino even said that it was one of his favorite films and that Miike is his favorite director. 13 Assassins is DEFINITELY less crazy than Audition but I think it's just a much better all around film.

So anyone else think that

I love 13 Assassins.

Yeah I watched or read something about the Koyata thing and his character was based on something in Japanese lore. One of the other samurais just straight up asks him about it at the end but he just sorta blows it off.