Akira Kurosawa is widely considered one
of the best film director's of all time. His attention to detail
transformed post-war Japan into the feudal Japan of 100 years
earlier. His classic samurai movies, Seven Samurai and
Yojimbo are some of
the best movies ever made and have been the inspiration for many
Hollywood films, most notably The Magnificent Seven.
Kurosawa was clearly being
channeled during the production of 13 Assassins.
Similar to the plot of Seven Samurai,
we find a group of Samurai joining together to fight on the side of
honor. 13 Assassins is
an amazingly accurate portrayal of feudal Japan and the life of the
samurai.
