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The Teenage Assassin, Azumi

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Aya Ueto as Azumi.

The first thing you think after seeing this chick in action with a katana is "Beatrix Who?"

So The Bride gets pissed when her ex-boss and her former co-workers leave her for dead after crashing her wedding, and goes on a rampage. Well whoopty-fu!king-shit.

For me personally, shit doesn't get any better than this little cutie with a sword, Azumi.

Azumi is discovered as a 7–8 year old girl kneeling without visible emotion next to the body of her dead mother by the samurai master Gessai, played by Yoshio Harada, and his entourage of young students. Azumi is raised 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. Questions and internal conflicts begin to arise amongst Azumi and her comrades as it seems their mission even prevents them from saving a village of mostly women and children from being massacred at the hands of a group of bandits, as their primary mission is to kill the warlords Asano Nagamasa, Masayuki Sanada and Kiyomasa Kato. Aside from the warlords, Azumi must also deal with a narcissistic mercenary, Bijomaru Mogami, whose sword has no hand guards as he claims to never have had to defend against attacks. He is very feminine in appearance, seen wearing makeup, having long hair and always carries around a rose. He kills one of Azumi's friends and is the final villain that Azumi has to fight in the movie. Azumi and Bijomaru fight to a standstill when Bijomaru, already insane, snaps. He becomes reckless and Azumi decapitates him.

After the end of Azumi, Azumi and her only remaining colleague Nagara find themselves hunted for the assassinations they've carried out. After a battle with ninja recruited by Kiyomasa's retainer, Kanbei, Azumi and Nagara escape and hide temporarily in a temple so Nagara can heal. While Azumi goes to buy food, she comes across some bandits in a teahouse led by Ginkaku, a young bandit who bears a striking resemblance to Azumi's former friend (and love interest) Nachi. Later, Azumi and Nagara are found by ninjas working for Tessai the priest, upon whose orders the assassins initially began their mission. After discussing it with Tessai, Azumi and Nagara leave to seek out their final target, Masayuki Sanada. A group of government ninja also accompany them, among them Kozue (Chiaki Kuriyama - Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill).

Meanwhile, Kanbei assembles a large force of mercenaries and bandits to try and take down the assassins. Amongst them are Ginkaku and his brother, Kikkaku. After ambushing Azumi and the others in a deserted town, Kanbei's ninjas attack but Ginkaku and the others change sides in order to protect Azumi. The ninjas, including their leader, are killed. Azumi and the others return to Ginkaku's family, where they are looked upon with distaste for their occupation. Azumi is torn by her attachment to the Ginkaku, but on Nagara's urging they depart.

While travelling, Kozue convinces Nagara that Azumi no longer wishes to fulfill her mission and should be talked out of it. Nagara tells Azumi he is fed up and wants to start a new life with Kozue, and that Azumi should go and live with Ginkaku, and they part ways. Azumi, still intent on carrying out the mission, attempts to locate Masayuki in his mountain temple, only to discover he has left with his army to kill Tessai. Meanwhile, Tessai and his entourage have departed for safety, but are soon tracked down by Roppa, a member of the bloodthirsty Ueno Koga clan working for Masayuki. Most of Tessai's guards are killed until Azumi arrives, as do Ginkaku and his brethren who had been following her. Roppa is killed, as are Kikkaku and several of Ginkaku's brothers.

Meanwhile, Nagara and Kozue begin their search for Masayuki, but once they are alone, Kozue reveals herself to be a hidden member of the Ueno Koga clan, and kills Nagara. Coming across Azumi later, she tells her that she and Nagara were separated, but when she attempts to kill Tessai, Azumi realises that something is not right and asks for the true fate of her friend Nagara. Kozue eventually replies that she' happened to Nagara. The two fight, with Azumi shortly becoming the winner. Azumi states she will go after Masayuki alone.

Soon Azumi meets Kunio and Tsuchigumo, and tells them that Kozue is dead. Kunio is enraged, but Tsuchigumo becomes Azumi's opponent. His weapon is razor-sharp poisoned wires. Azumi manages to cause his wires to rebound back at him - he is sliced apart. But Azumi is cut and falls into a paralytic sleep. Sanada's concubine and the true leader of the Ueno clan, Kunio, steps out of hiding to tell Azumi she hates her. Kunio feels that Azumi, who has killed so many, knows nothing of life. With the poison incapacitating Azumi, it soon came to a finishing blow, but Ginkaku appears, taking the fatal thrust and in the process mortally injuring Kunio. Ginkaku managed to dampen the poison's effect upon Azumi somehow, shortly before dying.

Kunio makes her way back to her camp, only to die in Sanada's arms. In her last conversation with him, she begs him not to give up on their dream of war. He tells her he only wanted to see her happy face.

Shortly after this, Azumi appears on a hill in the distance. Fighting her way through many of Sanada's troops, she is met by the man she intends to kill. However Sanada's son and Tessai both arrive at the same time, both wanting Sanada to retreat. Sanada is eager to kill Azumi by himself. He decides to challenge her to a duel; he tells Kanbei to leave. At the acceptance of these terms, the last member of Ginkaku's friends is killed, as he declares the decision is unjust. Sanada states that regardless of the result of the duel, they will no longer bother the Tokugawa regime ever again. Azumi, questioning whether she had ever been following a path of her own or if she and her friends had always been being used, accepts the duel. They appear to equal each other in terms of skill until Azumi breaks Sanada's spear. Sanada gets another weapon, but blood spurts from a neck wound before he manages to use it. He dies.

Azumi is allowed to leave. After a long, emotionally ambiguous silence, she walks alongside the stream of blood running from the camp.

Trivia: Legendary badass game designer Hideo Kojima (the guy behind the Metal Gear series) has a cameo in the first Azumi flick. Here's the clip.



Azumi fighting the insane Bijomaru.



Just rent the movie or download it. Azumi is so badass. You can take that to the bank.


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[Just rent the movie or download it. Azumi is so badass. You can take that to the bank.


Renting is better

don't need pirates around here.


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Renting is better

don't need pirates around here.


I was joking about the downloading part.


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