Release Date: April 29, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Magnet Releasing (Magnolia Pictures)
Director: Takashi Miike
Screenwriter: Daisuke Tengan
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Gorô Inagaki, Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Hira, Hiroki Matsukata, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masataka Kubota, Sosuke Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Yûma Ishigaki, Kôen Kondô
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R (for sequences of bloody violence, some disturbing images and brief nudity)
Cult director Takeshi Miike ("Ichi the Killer," "Audition") delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which 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 wartorn future.