Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Hiroki Narimiya
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. The Shogun, sickened by innocent lives lost in senseless w...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 1, 1998
Stats: 1,179 reviews
Since Kill Bill 1 I never saw such a wonderful sword choreography. But it wasn't just for the honour, the pride and the respect that I feel for the Asian samurai culture that I liked this movie, it was the plot. A very interesting plot that really caught my attention. The movie t...( read more)
A samurai sick of war takes in a group of orphans and trains them to be assassins with the sole purpose in life of killing the warlords responsible for the constant bloodshed. Based on a comic book and directed in a very anime style, this film has more in common with a superhero ...( read more)
Azumi and Versus is why I'm so excited to see The Midnight Meat Train. This director, Ryuhei Kitamura, has a niche for creating some kick ass style in all his movies. Azumi is loaded with tons of cool, well choreographed action. Lots of interesting(and funny) characters. Plenty o...( read more)
Considering this came from Ryuhai Kitamura, director of Versus, I was quite disappointed by the lack of gore and style. It has a few sporadic moments of both (loved the revolving camera gag) but this Shogun-style action film is pretty routine.
Still a mixed bag from Kitamura, some nice fights here and there but anime cliches 101 prevent the already flat story, or the characters, to get interesting. Not even Aya Ueto's cuteness save this from being a merely week-end filler, not a cult jewel by any chance.
Deadly hot chick in the lead? Great start but does it go anywhere from there? As it turns out, yes. There is some beautiful fight choreography in this movie. It seems a bit dragged on and the drama can get a little boring but the end is well worth the wait. Ukiha's final charge a...( read more)
A jewel in Japanese cinema that you either love or hate. Beautifully shot and well-directed, this bloody film will blow you away! From the director of Versus...
71/100
This is an awfully bad movie. And I enjoy japanese culture, action/gore movies and bad movies, so I do know what I'm talking about. It is so bad it isn't even funny. Badly acted, terrible choreography (the girl that said this movie's got good swordfighting has surely never seen a...( read more)
this film make me knew about how to survive...and aya ueto is the most beautiful girls in the world..:-) i love her..i like this film very much..
i loved the movie. alot of slicing n dicing. im hooked now. not only that, she is fine. can't wait for the second part.
FYI, this film as well as Azumi 2 can both be watched in their entirety at crunchyroll.com, a site dedicated to providing streaming Asian for the masses! Already have an account there? Then look me up; I'm there as Ukhti!
how come there is no imforamtion on the people who starred in this moive??? i want to know their names!!
Forget Ong Bak and the hollywood martial arts movies. This is the real deal.
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