Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan"s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a masterful exercise in cinematic butchery (New York Post) is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord in order to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future.