Japan’s Takashi Miike is running on creative vapours in this tiring knockabout genre mash-up.
Takashi Miike follows up his blood-pumping samurai blitzkrieg 13 Assassins with this talky and tiresome period drama.
By Anton Bitel
Takashi Miike’s magnificent 13 marks both the end of an era and the boundary of a genre.
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