TWO DEGREES
Azumi (2003)
あずみ
Plot:
- "Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a gray-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they have prepared for all these years. He pairs them up and only five survive, including Azumi. Let by Jiji, this small band descends from the mountains. Their mission, we learn, is to stop a nefarious plot to unseat the current shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, by the supporters of Hideyori, the son of deceased warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In other words, they are out to prevent a civil war of the kind that devastated their own families before Ieyasu wrested power from his rivals at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and imposed peace..."
Notes:
- First film in the Azumi series
- Based on the manga by Yu Koyama
Cast:
- Aya Ueto as Azumi
- Jo Odagiri as Bijomaru
- Tak Sakaguchi as Sajiki brother #2
- Hideo Sakaki as Nagato
- Takehiro Katayama as Samurai Guard
- Minoru Matsumoto as Tobizaru
Info:
- Release Date: May 10, 2003
- Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
- Writer: Mataichiro Yamamoto
- Rating: ★★★☆☆