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14 May 2002 (Japan)
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Other People Don't Matter
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When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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(From Twitch. 15 April 2010, 1:25 PM, PDT)
Takashi Miike’s Thirteen Assassins Remake Moves Forward
(From Screen Rant. 12 May 2009, 10:04 AM, PDT)
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Proof that Takashi Miike is truly a brilliant director
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Cast
(in credits order) | Tatsuya Fujiwara | ... | Eiji |
 | Satoshi Tsumabuki | ... | Sabu |
| Tomoko Tabata | ... | Onobu |
| Kazue Fukiishi | ... | Osue |
| Kenji Sawada | ... | Okayasu |
| Naomasa Musaka | ... | Matsuda |
| Tatsuo Yamada | ... | Ryojiro Kojima |
| Yoshiki Arizono | ... | Yohei |
| Keisuke Horibe | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ken'ichi Endô | ... | Giichi |
| Mayuko Nishiyama | ... | Osono |
| Ren Ohsugi | ... | Heizo (as Ren Oosugi) |
 | Hiroshi Tamaki | ... | Kinta |
| Yôji Tanaka | ... | Toku |
 | Akira Yasuda | ||
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| Takashi Miike | |||
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| Hiroshi Takeyama | screenplay | |
| Shûgorô Yamamoto | novel | |
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| Kôji Endô | |||
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| Hideo Yamamoto | |||
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| Masato Tanno | .... | first assistant director | |
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- Toei Kyoto Movie Studio sound stages
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Sabu is a simple, straight-forward friendship/love story with few surprises, very unlike Miike's more popular movies (which have been recognized as some of the most disturbingly shocking and violent films of all time). But what makes this movie better than just an average movie of the week is the direction. The opening 10 minutes are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen. And throughout, Miike shows everyone that he can handle a story without sex or ultra-violence with one of the greatest styles the cinema has known. The movie itself is worth seeing at least once, but the directing gives it replay value several times over.