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Posted : 2 years, 2 months ago on 6 March 2022 03:09
A Masterpiece from Japan!
This movie is available in several languages, including English...
First of all, the cinematography is GREAT in this film! They found geography to make it seem you are back in the days when the movie took place and their wardrobe dept effectively captured the era's common people's attire.
Azumi is an orphan who is found by the master training assassins, who goal is to kill the main warlords who continue killing, raping and plundering the innocent people of the time period. Azumi joins the tough training regime and excels in it.
The only reason I only gave it a 9.5 was when he 'reduced' his assassin team in half and also, their reaction to what was happening in the first village they came upon. Neither were necessary.
The team 's goal is to complete the mission no matter what, and to kill or be killed in its completion.
Tragedy takes two of its members, but the rest continue their mission. Later, two more members and the Master die, leaving Azumi and Nagara (Ishigaki Yuma).
It is pure action from end to end, with tidbits of emotional touches in between.
The choreographer for this movie's swordplay must have worked overtime and deserves his own award for his or her work, as well as the cast, who must have spent hundreds of hours perfecting the fight scenes! A special note of appreciation to the psychotic white-clad assassin, who was released from jail to deal with the assassin squad team formed which was trained to kill the warlords.
I have never seen a movie with Ueto Aya in it before, who played Azumi, but I will definitely look for more of her movies; likewise all of the support staff effectively played their parts and backed Ueto Aya's performance here.
RE-WATCH - you bet!
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Azumi Reviews
Azumi Japanese action adventure from 2003
Posted : 8 years, 4 months ago on 29 December 2015 09:25
As a child, Azumi lost her mother during the war. Out in the deserts she is found by an old Ronin and his gang of young kids that he has taken care of. He train them to become the ultimate samurai assassins, now fully grown, Azumi has become stronger and a fast trained assassin but she must be put to the test, the test is she must be willing to kill her lover or be killed by her lover. She succeeded unwilling and now she has become ready for her first mission, to find and eliminate 3 deadly warlords that want to start a war. On her way she is challenged by ninjas, bandits, warlords bodyguards, 3 crazy brothers, and one psychopath who love white clothes and roses. She also meet a beautiful actress named Yae who want to help Azumi from be a cold blooded assassin to a traditional woman, but will Azumi change her life and risk the nations safety?
How does this film hold as a samurai ninja action movie?
Spot on, every action scene is fast and quick and deadly, it's not about how well the characters knows Kung fu or other martial art, it's about survival, and you can feel it in this film, you feel every minute they fight who is gonna win and the excitement thrills your blood, well done action samurai scenes 5/5.
How does it hold as a plot movie?
Brilliant, you never feel lost, editing in this movie is more then well done, normally in some samurai movie, some scenes can be slow, but in this film it never feel slow, it's over 2 hours long but never feel slow at all, it's the first I feel 2 hours is too short for this film, that's how brilliantly they made this film, it get also 5/5.
How is this film in general?
Honestly, there is nothing to dislike about this film, wether you are a samurai fan or not, this movie can entertain and make me you feel touched at the same time, no doubt in my mind at all as this is a movie for all generations, long live Azumi 10/10!
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A good movie
Posted : 13 years ago on 4 May 2011 02:58
Honestly, before watching this flick, I have never heard of it before but one of my colleagues at the time gave me the DVD so I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of those Samurai action movies but I have to admit that this one was actually pretty good and it was definitely a really entertaining feature. Indeed, the whole thing looked quite gorgeous and the action scenes were very nicely done. To be honest, I still don't think it is actually a great picture as the story didn’t provide anything really original or groundbreaking and the whole thing was fairly predictable. The characters were also barely developed. But of course, such movies are not about the plot, it is all about the ass-kicking and the ass-kicking was definitely impressive and, as a result, it was definitely a cool flick to behold. Apparently, they came up with a sequel later on and I haven’t seen it but, to be honest, I’m not sure I would really need to spend much more time with these characters. Anyway, to conclude, I thought it was pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.
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