Takashi Miike's 13 ASSASSINS To Close Fantastic Fest 2010!

Ladies and gentlemen, Fantastic Fest just keeps getting better.The closing night film has just been announced and it is *drum roll* Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. This is one seriously handsome piece of film making and it's hard to imagine a more fitting conclusion to the festival than the US premiere of Miike's latest.

The noble samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is secretly commissioned to assassinate the evil Lord Naritsugu after his bloody rise to power. Assembling an elite group of samurai, Shinzaemon plots to ambush the Lord on his annual journey home from Edo. The courageous samurai know it's a suicide mission because the Lord is closely protected by a deadly entourage led by Shinzaemon's nemesis, the ruthless Hanbei. To capture Lord Naritsugu, Shinzaemon and his skilled samurai transform a mountain village into an intricate death trap. But when the Lord finally arrives, the assassins discover they are outnumbered fifteen to one. The day has come for our 13 fearless assassins to face death in a monumental battle of fiery explosions, showers of arrows and clashing swords.