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NASDAQ delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here. Japanese samurai movie pokes fun at tradition Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Film on 19th century "freak" impresses in Venice Wed, Sep 8 2010 Venice film fest fights its corner as crisis bites Tue, Sep 7 2010 A hoax? Joaquin Phoenix film gets viewers guessing Tue, Sep 7 2010 Deneuve tackles sexual equality in rare comedy Sat, Sep 4 2010 Venice festival honors Chinese director John Woo Fri, Sep 3 2010 Related Topics Fashion » Entertainment » Film » Japan » Japanese director Miike Takashi attends a photocall in Venice September 05, 2007. Credit: Reuters/Stefano Rellandini By Mike Collett-White VENICE | Thu Sep 9, 2010 8:49am EDT VENICE (Reuters) - Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins" is a surprisingly conventional remake of a 1963 samurai movie, but he injects enough horror and humour to win over viewers at the Venice film festival. The film, one of 24 in the festival's main competition lineup, is based on Eiichi Kudo's black-and-white picture of the same name, and it could appeal to Venice jury president Quentin Tarantino, a martial arts enthusiast. Set in 1844, the film follows a band of 12 samurai and one hilarious hanger-on as they seek to bring down the cruel Lord Naritsugu, who rapes and kills at will in the knowledge that his status as the Shogun's brother will protect him. Led by the noble Shinzaemon Shimada (Koji Yakusho), the rebels know they are on a suicide mission against vastly superior numbers, but that does not deter them as they prepare for battle using elaborate traps and expert swordsmanship. In one early scene, an eerie-looking and emaciated girl who has had her arms and lower legs severed by Naritsugu is brought before Shinzaemon. She cannot tell him what happened to her family because her tongue has been cut out, but when she writes the words "total massacre," the hero keeps them close to his heart as he sets out on his path for revenge. Most of the laughs come from Koyata (Yusuke Iseya), a wild mountain man who fights alongside the more formal samurai using stones and a sling and who criticizes them for their arrogance. RECENT PAST Miike said his main aim in making 13 Assassins was to educate young Japanese people about their recent past. "This is not taking place in the remote past, but rather in the quite recent past, when our great-grandparents lived," he told reporters in Venice on Thursday. "It is our story, the story of our everyday lives. It is not total imagination, although certainly it is a fictional story. "Young Japanese today should not forget what the reality was that our families were experiencing," he added, speaking through an interpreter. 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