Movies - Azumi

	Movies - Azumi

Azumi (あずみ) is a manga (Japanese comic) series created by Yu Koyama. It concerns the title character, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed.

Azumi was adapted into a popular and extremely violent action film by Ryuhei Kitamura in 2003. A sequel, Azumi 2: Death or Love, directed by Shusuke Kaneko, followed in 2005.

Since the movie was produced by Mataichiro Yamamoto, the movie will soon be distributed to the US by his company called Asia Vision, a company owned by his other company, Urban Vision.

Azumi

After the Battle of Sekigahara, a samurai is tasked by the Ieyasu shogunate to raise a band of assassins to finish off Tokugawa's allies and other ambitious warlords.

Azumi, played by Aya Ueto, is discovered weeping next to the body of her dead mother by the samurai master and his entourage of young students, Azumi is then raised from a youth (roughly around 7-8 years old) in the martial skills of samurai and shinobi sword fighting, and the art of assassination. Azumi and her fellow classmates, now at young adult age, are constantly being told about a "mission" they must accomplish, though they have no idea what this mission is yet.

Prior to setting out on their mission, their master orders his students to "pair up" with each others best friend and proceed to kill each other, thus out of 10 students only five will remain to proceed with the mission. Azumi and fellow assassins must kill the warlords Asano Nagamasa, Masayuki Sanada and Kiyomasa Kato.

Azumi 2: Death or Love

Immediately after the final events of the first film, Azumi and her remaining friend are stalked by the men of a warlord she recently assassinated. Upon escaping, they are out-numbered and "out-gunned" and must join forces with a local resistance and a group of ragtag freedom fighters in order to kill the remaining warlord and bring peace to Japan.

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Movies - Azumi

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Azumi 2: Death or Love

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