十三刺客

已是江户时代后期，时有明石藩江户之家老间宫图书（内野聖陽 饰）在幕府老中土井大炊头（平幹二朗 饰）的宅前自杀，此举引起朝野震动。一切皆由明石藩主齐昭（稲垣吾郎 饰）而起。齐昭系现任将军的异母弟弟，其人嗜血如命、暴虐无常，引起朝廷上下诸多人等的不满，然齐昭已内定成为下任老中。为免苍生遭其荼毒，土井授意岛田新作卫门（役所広司 饰）在齐昭回藩途中予以刺杀。新左卫门召集了仓永左平太（松方弘樹 饰）、三桥军次郎（沢村一樹 饰）、平山九十郎（伊原剛志 饰）等13名刺客，在齐昭的必经之地布下层层埋伏…… 　　本片翻拍自工藤荣一1963年同名经典名作，新版剧本由著名导演今村昌平之子天愿大介担任，该片荣获2010年日本电影旬报十佳影片第4名。In 1844, the peace of Feudal Japan is threatened by cruel Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira, who is politically rising and getting closer to his half-brother, the shogun. After the harakiri of the Namiya clan leader, samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is summoned by the shogun's advisor Sir Doi of the Akashi Clan to listen to the tragedy of Makino Uneme, whose son and daughter-in-law have been murdered by Naritsugu. Then Sir Doi shows a woman with arms, legs and tongue severed by Naritsugu and she writes with her forearm a request to Shinza to slaughter Naritsugu and his samurai. Shinza promises to kill Naritsugu and he gathers eleven other samurais and plots a plan to attack Naritsugu in his trip back to the Akashi land. But the cunning samurai Hanbei Kitou that is responsible for the security of his master foresees Shinza's intent. Shinza decides to go with his samurai through the mountain, where they find the hunter Koyata that guides them off the mountain and joins the group. Now the thirteen men prepare an ambush to Naritsugu and his army of two hundred samurai in a suicide mission to stop evil.