13 Assassins

this one was a real slog to get through by the end. i just do not like takashi miike films. i thought this might be the one to turn me around, since people said its basically a straightforward narrative (for a change). but miike has no interest in telling a straightforward story, and his real passion shows through in only a couple of scenes here, of course the ones with extraneous, dehumanizing nudity. lots of body fluids, random, surprising gore, and dont forget the melodrama. ostensibly a film that hits on a classic japanese movie theme, one of the few realms where japanese speak truth to... read more