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New To Netflix: Thrillers! Horror! Samurai! Docs!

Back from a week's hiatus, and there are plenty of new goodies in the Netflix cookie jar.  This week we've added coverage for The Netherlands, along with the usual territories of Canada, The United States, Mexico, Brazil, The United Kingdom,...

Hey UK! Win a 13 ASSASSINS Sword and Blu-ray!

Enjoy Miike's samurai epic and want to relive the mayhem in high-def glory? Fancy the chance to win a pretty damn cool piece of merchandise? Read on... 13 Assassins sees director Takashi Miike, the man behind such uncompromising and unforgettable...

13 ASSASSINS DVD WINNERS!

Contest winners. I got ALOT of entries. Sorting through them and making a decision took me an extra couple of days. You folks got wonderfully creative. And most of you stayed within the prescribed boundaries. A few included hunters (Predator)...

13 ASSASSINS Blu-ray Review

Magnet Releasing:Cult director Takashi Miike ("Ichi the Killer", "Audition") delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent...

A Killer Giveaway: 13 ASSASSINS ON DVD

Want to win one of two copies of 13 Assassins? Simply use the next week to create a list of the 13 greatest film assassins. They don't all have to be from different films but they do have to be...

Takashi Miike's 13 ASSASSINS Blazes Onto Blu-ray/DVD July 5th From Magnet Releasing

July is going to be yet another expensive month for movie fans, and this next release isn't helping.  Takashi Miike's recent hit 13 Assassins is due to hit shelves on July 5th from Magnet Releasing.  This has been Miike's biggest...

Win A Signed 13 ASSASSINS Poster

You know what would be better than having a poster for Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins hanging on your wall? Having one signed by Miike himself. Yep, we've got two signed copies of the official US poster to give away and...

BIFF 2011: 13 ASSASSINS review

Miike Takashi's chanbara flick 13 Assassins will probably strike a lot of people as much more impressive than it really is, if they've never seen a Kurosawa movie, read Lone Wolf & Cub or even missed out on YĆ“ji...

Takashi Miike talks '13 ASSASSINS' and More...

UPDATE - NOW WITH MORE ANSWERS! I am indebted to Christian Storms, Miike's translator, for he did not have technical difficulties, thus he had the full recording. And you have all the answers now. We got the opportunity to talk to...

ActionFest '11: 13 Assassins Review

[Hey it's available on VOD right now if you wish to follow along, but in light of it being the closing film of this years edition of ActionFest, here is my TIFF review, rescued from the archives to annoy chanbara...

The Ambush Begins In Miike's 13 ASSASSINS

One of the finest films in the Japanese cult auteur's extensive career, 13 Assassins is a classically styled samurai drama that builds to an epically scaled showdown. Here's part of how the Toronto International Film Festival described the film: The...

The Ronin Attacks In 13 ASSASSINS

One of the finest films in the Japanese cult auteur's extensive career, 13 Assassins is a classically styled samurai drama that builds to an epically scaled showdown. Here's part of how the Toronto International Film Festival described the film: The...

It's A Total Massacre In Miike's 13 ASSASSINS

One of the finest films in the Japanese cult auteur's extensive career, 13 Assassins is a classically styled samurai drama that builds to an epically scaled showdown. Here's part of how the Toronto International Film Festival described the film:The year...

US Trailer And A Clip From Takashi Miike's 13 ASSASSINS

A great favorite here at ScreenAnarchy - I personally am of the opinion that it is the most technically accomplished film of his extensive career - Takashi Miike's samurai drama 13 Assassins is now available On Demand in the US...

13 ASSASSINS Review

13 Assassins will be available on VOD in North America starting today, March 25th and opens in select U.S. cities starting on April 29th. To quote another review of mine, "it's been ten years since Japanese maverick Takashi Miike took...

SXSW 2011: 13 ASSASSINS Review

[With 13 Assassins now screening at SXSW we revisit James Marsh's previous review.]For his latest film, prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi has taken Kudo Eiichi's 1966 tale of a villainous shogun and the disillusioned samurai sent to assassinate him,...