Thirteen Assassins
- Sunday, June 3, 18:00 German Film Museum
(Tickets only available at the German Film Museum) - 十三人の刺客
13 nin no shikaku - Japan 1963, 16mm, 125 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Eiichi KUDO
- Script: Kaneo IKEGAMI
- Camera: Jubei SUZUKI
- Cast: Chiezo KATAOKA, Kotaro SATOMI, Ryohei UCHIDA, Kantaro SUGA, Kanjuro ARASHI
- Production & World sales: Toei
- Film copy: Japan Foundation
- With an introduction by Chris MaGee
Sadistic feudal lord Matsudaira rapes a woman and kills her husband. Due to his position as the younger brother to the shogun, the affair is hushed up. A government official considers the continuous misconduct a threat to the samurai class and secretly hires Shinzaemon to assassinate the lord. This opens a compelling, elaborately produced game of cat-and-mouse, which was remade in 2010 by Takashi MIIKE.