Episode #24 – 13 Assassins (十三人の刺客)
13 Assassins (2010)
十三人の刺客 [Jû-San-Nin no Shikaku]
Directed by Takashi Miike
Written by Daisuke Tengan
Based on the film directed by Eiichi Kudo and written by Kaneo Ikegami
A group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Cast
Koji Yakusho – Shinzaemon Shimada
Takayuki Yamada – Shinrokuro Shimada
Yusuke Iseya – Kiga Koyata
Gorô Inagaki – Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira
Masachika Ichimura – Hanbei Onigashira
Tsuyoshi Ihara – Kuzuro Hirayama
Hiroki Matsukata – Kuranaga
Ikki Sawamura – Gunjiro Mitsuhashi
Arata Furuta – Heizo Sahara
Sôsuke Takaoka – Yasuyoshi Hioki
Seiji Rokkaku – Mosuke Otake
Kazuki Namioka – Rihei Ishizuka
Kôen Kondô – Yahachi Horii
Yuma Ishigaki – Gennai Higuchi
Masataka Kubota – Shojiro Ogura
Kôshirô Matsumoto – Yukie Makino
Mikijiro Hira – Lord Doi
Kazue Fukiishi – Tsuya/Upashi