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Azumi - Synopsis - Moviefone Orphaned as a little girl, Azumi (Aya Ueto) is raised in the forest with a group of ten children by their master (Yoshio Harada), who trains them to be peerless assassins. Azumi and Nachi (Shun Oguri) are the strongest of the fighters. Azumi, based on the manga by Yu Koyama, is the first of cult director Ryuhei Kitamura's (Versus) films to be made within the Japanese studio system. movies.aol.com /movie/azumi/19833/synopsis   (268 words)

Midnight Eye review: Azumi (2003, director: Ryuhei KITAMURA) With Azumi, her first crack at the big screen, the billion yen question was not so much whether the girl could act or not, but rather if people would pay money to see her try. Azumi was his first chance to show what he could do with the financial backing of a major studio, and to make a significant step toward realizing his unabashed dream of becoming a big-budget Hollywood director. Orphaned as an infant, Azumi is taken in by fallen samurai Jiji (Yoshio Harada) and grows up to become the swiftest of his band of young assassins, who are to be unleashed on the power-hungry warlords who stand in the way of a peaceful Japan. www.midnighteye.com /reviews/azumi.shtml   (1125 words)

Azumi - 8th Annual Asian Film Festival Azumi is the story of a group of lively kids, secluded in the mountains and taught to fight by greybeard, Jiji. The one exception is the only swordswoman of the group, Azumi, wearing short shorts and miniskirts, and trying to preserve the last scraps of her own humanity against tidal waves of sword-waving mercenaries. Azumi is brimming with explosive emotion and heartbreak over the loss of innocence, but still finds time for grotesque villains and samurai battles. www.hkinsf.com /4star/fest2004/pages/azumi.html   (192 words)

Azumi (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Azumi is one of ten teenagers plucked as orphans from the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara, and brought to a mountain retreat where they are trained as assassins by Gessai (Yoshio Harada), a martial arts master and war veteran for the purpose of stopping any would-be warlord from sparking another war. Aya Ueto fits the image of Azumi as portrayed in the manga and she is certainly charming, but she doesn't sell her action performance. Azumi is pure, popcorn entertainment with no real depth, but with non-stop eye candy, gratuitous violence, and a wry sense of humor. www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/azumi.htm   (1539 words)

subway cinema | new york asian film festival 2004 | azumi Based on a popular manga that sold 8 million copies, AZUMI is the story of a bunch of frisky kids, sequestered in the mountains and taught to fight by greybeard, Jiji. The one exception is the sparky little samurai grrl, Azumi, wearing short shorts and miniskirts, sporting a lethal glare and trying to preserve the last scraps of her own humanity against tidal waves of sword-waving mercenaries. AZUMI is the latest film from Japan 's new adrenaline king of pop cinema, Ryuhei Kitamura. www.subwaycinema.com /frames/nyaff04-azumi.htm   (426 words)

Azumi (JAPAN 2003) Azumi delivers in the action department, though the sheer amount of downed foes and semi-cool posturing by the cast can get a little old. Azumi has a fine period look, some cool visuals, and enough action to satiate most fans, but it doesn't deliver a plot or characters that exist beyond a bare minimum. By the time Azumi is required to take on two hundred (yes, that's 200) foes in a single battle, most Asian action junkies will likely be happy just to be there. www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/azumi.htm   (795 words)

Azumi Now it's up to Azumi and her friends to decide whether to keep running or turn and face the enemy so they may fulfil their duties to their master even if it does mean untold bloodshed. Thankfully though,' Azumi' soon put all my fears to rest as not only is this an extremely competent fantasy-action adventure, but it is also littered with more examples of Kitamura's interesting camera techniques that made 'Versus' so satisfying. Although Azumi is supposedly the main focus of the piece, it's interesting to note that her role is very subdued and she actually plays out the story on the outskirts until the very finale. www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/azumi.htm   (816 words)

Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes | 'Azumi' The titles have Azumi on a mountain peak, her abbreviated robe stirred by the breeze, her knee socks spotless as always. Azumi's first catch is a general relaxing with a fishing pole. Azumi is slashing it up while standing on a protruding rafter, and the camera completely circles vertically around her and her opponent as if the two battlers were the axis of a Ferris wheel. www.metroactive.com /metro/07.26.06/azumi-0630.html   (891 words)

Azumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Azumi may be an outstanding assassin, but the makers of this movie killed any chances of her being the next great action hero. Azumi is slick, violently beautiful and appeals directly to the lower sensations. Azumi carves her way through a body count that rivals any three average samurai flicks. www.rottentomatoes.com /m/azumi   (836 words)

Azumi (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) When they are teenagers, the master assigns them to a mortal test, and then the five survivors travel with him with the mission of killing three evil warlords of clans and keeping their nation united without plunging again into a bloody war. "Azumi" is a great adaptation to the screen of a character of a manga, a Japanese comic book. The cinematography and the choreography of the sword battles are amazing, but the story is flawed. www.imdb.com /title/tt0384819   (481 words)

Japanese Movie Review | Azumi (2003) Ryuhei Kitamura, Aya Ueto Like the rest of the assassins, Azumi's memories of life beyond the mountainous region where she and the others train are nonexistent. At a bloated 140 minutes, "Azumi" is basically nothing more than a series of fights occasionally broken up with little 5-minute intermissions where characters get to emote about the stars and living life as assassins and such. In the movie's oft-mentioned finale, Azumi slices and dices her way through a sea of opponents, literally covering the streets of a makeshift town with 100s of bodies. www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/azumi.htm   (904 words)

Azumi Azumi (Aya Ueto, Install) is on a mission to assassinate three warlords who are not loyal to the Emperor. Azumi's parents were murdered when she was a child. Violence follows her wherever she goes, and Azumi is tiring of this life. www.haro-online.com /movies/azumi.html   (448 words)

Azumi : filmcritic.com Movie Review Azumi (Aya Ueto) is the lone female of the bunch and the fastest. Yae attempts to feminize Azumi and turn her from her violent ways, but counter-assassins are already lined up to force her back into kill mode. Azumi does add a new wrinkle, however, in its emphasis on assassination as an alternative to war. filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/e753fb96fac73f5e88256e78007dc8fc?OpenDocument   (696 words)

Azumi Azumi is brought to us by the same director who made the low budget gory action film "Versus". Azumi is based on a Japanese manga and you can see it through the action and characters. The many characters in Azumi are all interesting in their own way. www.rabidasian.com /Reviews/Action/Azumi.html   (314 words)

Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: Azumi New from Urban Vision's AsiaVision label is "Azumi", which weaves a tale of a young girl raised to be an assassin in 19th century feudal Japan. Their sole mission is to do the bidding of the State by assassinating troublemakers amongst the elite, thereby ensuring power remains in the hand of those who currently wield it. But Azumi is different from her comrades as she begins to question her actions and the teachings and traditions of her samurai trainer. www.lethaldeath.com /Crimson/Archives/ResidentDVDvil/Archives/RD_Azumi.php   (806 words)

[KFCC] Azumi Review AZUMI is based on the manga with the same name. Ryuhei's purpose here is to serve the same old generic formula we have all seen, but serve it in a way that can still manage to impress the pants right off of us. AZUMI cross-breeds action, humor, and emotion into one big triumph of film-making. www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/azumi/azumi.html   (1124 words)

Monsters At Play: 13th Philadelphia Film Festival: Azumi Review Azumi is one of his latest projects and marks his ascension to the rank of major studio director. One of the five surviving combatants is Azumi (played by the pixie-like Aya Ueto, who may be the cutest swordswoman since The Princess Blade's Yumiko Shaku), long recognized as being the most agile member of the team. Azumi is also painfully slow-moving at times, as a number of dialogue-heavy scenes strip away the momentum generated by the all-too-infrequent skirmishes. www.monstersatplay.com /features/phillyfest2004/fest-azumi.php   (927 words)

Azumi 2: Love Or Death Azumi proved to be a pretty successful film in 2003, it didn’t come as much of a surprise when a sequel was announced. When Azumi proves to be too formidable a foe for Kanbei to defeat on his own, he ends up teaming up with Masayuki Sanada, a government official who, for his own nefarious reasons, also wants to see the two female soldiers of fortune stopped dead in their tracks. Azumi 2: Love Or Death is a thrill ride of a film with plenty of stand out action set pieces, some cool stunts, kinetic camera work and plenty of arterial spray in the grand Japanese tradition. www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/azumi_2.html   (797 words)

DVD: Azumi (EVS Entertainment) Some of the footage left on the editing floor include a dream sequence and several other scenes, although none of the fights or violent aspects were removed, so this wasn't done on a censorship basis. Azumi is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, or widescreen, and is Anamorphic for widescreen TVs. The second feature is "Making of Azumi", this one dubbed in Thai, which shows a lot of behind the scenes footage from the film. www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/dvd/region0/azumi_evs.htm   (1171 words)

SaruDama: Azumi 2 : Love or Death (Kaneko Shusuke 2005) - Japanese Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Azumi and Nagara, the last remaining assassins of Gessai's trained group, attempt to complete their mission against all odds. Azumi and Nagara, the only two remaining survivors of Gessai's original band of assassins, seek to finish their mission with the death of Masayuki Sanada, a deposed daimyo exiled to Mount Kudo. Azumi and Nagara report to the aging Tenkai, friend of Gessai and ally of the Toyotomi cause. www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/azumi2.shtml   (904 words)

cityonfire.com | Azumi Because like their weekday afternoon brethren, the kids in Azumi say things like "that's cool!" and "creeps me out"; they're all teen idol cute; and their costumes are, well, costumes, not authetic looking period pieces. But despite the pop star sheen and the limited martial artisty of its cast, Azumi is a load of fun, especially in its latter half when character development has been tossed aside in favor of bloody mayhem and copious close-ups of hottie Aya Ueto as Azumi. Azumi is too long (and I watched the 124-minute Korean version, not the full-length 148-minute Japanese release). www.cityonfire.com /japanese/azumi.html   (690 words)

Movie Review, Rating, Rossmaning: Azumi But beware, as the whole thing starts out relatively retarded though, as we are introduced to Azumi (Azumi being the main character and quite an uber ninja babe herself) and her ninja training camp. Not that Azumi is doing the training, just that she's being ninja trained herself along with a bunch of other ninja orphans who've never left the camp their entire ninja lives. So, Azumi and her ninja brothers are then forced to fight for their lives against Japanese Brendan Fraser and his army of delinquent bandits in their bandit city in the bandit outlands... www.therossman.com /rrr/movies/azumi.html   (1163 words)

AsiaVision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Orphaned in 19th century war-torn Tokugawa Shogun period of Japan, Azumi is found and raised along with nine other orphans by Ji, the mentor. After 10 years of inconceivably harsh training and discipline, Azumi and her comrades, who have been molded into invincible warriors, excitedly await instructions from Ji. With heavy hearts, Azumi, along with the four other survivors of the "test," Ukiha, Hyuga, Amagi, aand Nagara, venture into the vast world outside of their secluded valley. www.asiavisionfilms.com /films/azumi   (359 words)

Japanese Movie Review | Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005) Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki f "Azumi 2: Death or Love" does anything, it's convince fans of the series that Ryuhei Kitamura, the director of the 2003 original, was one heck of a director. Coming two years after the first, "Azumi 2" continues the adventures of diminutive swordslinging assassin Azumi (Aya Ueto), who we find on the run with fellow killer Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki), the two being the only ones still alive after the events of the first movie. By film's end, Kaneko attempts to resurrect the strangely ecstatic vibe one got from watching Azumi obliterate a village full of soldiers in the original by having her hack her way through yet another legion of soldiers in the sequel. www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/azumi2.htm   (964 words)

Akadot - Azumi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Azumi, based off the manga by Yu Koyama with the same name, is a story about a group of ten assassins, nine males and one female - Azumi, who were trained since childhood to kill the warlords threatening Tokugawa. Yae narrowly escapes Bijomaru and returns to where Azumi was waiting and tries to convince her to become a woman and leave her life of violence. However, as they head towards Yae's hometown, they are attacked by bandits, and Azumi realizes that although she wants to leave that part of her life behind, there are always others that bring her back to it. www.akadot.com /article.php?a=164&p=43   (670 words)

Azumi 2 Azumi (Aya Ueto) is still alive and kicking. It all leads up to an inevitable conclusion in which Azumi finds herself taking out a horde of nameless goons on a dusty mountain. The Super Ninja's Azumi fights are direct lifts of the villains that appeared in his "Ninja Scroll". members.tripod.com /bugy5/Reviews/Review_Azumi.html   (399 words)

Azumi AZUMI, like PRINCESS BLADE (click to see Teri's review here), NAKED WEAPON, SO CLOSE, and God knows how many other Asian films is about teenybopper girly assassins, and it's starting to get old. But AZUMI is just all over the place. To make matters worse, their over-the-top elements get no support from a film that can't decide whether it wants to be camp or taken seriously. www.jeremysilman.com /movies_tv_tt/azumi.html   (442 words)

cityonfire.com | Azumi 2 Azumi 2 picks up a little while after the end of Azumi, with Azumi and Nagara on the hunt of the last of their targets. The problems I had with Azumi 2 related to some of the plot points they were trying to implement. Everything that revolved around his character lead to Azumi simply looking confused most of the time, instead of yielding emotional situations for her. www.cityonfire.com /japanese/azumiII.html   (504 words)

Azumi Starring flavour of the moment Aya Ueto (Kinpachi Sensei 6), Azumi is flashy, stylish and totally teen, with hints of the hyper-real Kitamura tends towards offset by the occasional hint of a more low-key sense of tradition. Drawing in easy stride from a long line of celluloid ninja, and with the ground-breaking Versus under his belt, this director is single-handedly reviving the fast, violent spectacle style the ‘jidai geki’ (period drama), or ‘chambara’ film from Japan’s Golden era of the 70’s. Azumi is certainly that, at least visually; a little gormless in its aspirations but one helluva wild ride. www.heroic-cinema.com /reviews/azumi   (626 words)

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