Azumi (あずみ) - Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
DVD | Code 3
| Action / Fantasy | Toho Company Ltd. | Japan 2003
Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji (Yoshio Harada), 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. Led by Jiji, this small band descends from the mountain that is the only world they know.
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.
Their first target is Asano Nagamasa (Masato Ibu), a lecherous lord who was one of Toyotomi's allies. He proves easy prey for Azumi's charms, and she and her band dispose of him and his entourage in spectacularly short order.
Soon after, they encounter a troupe of traveling acrobats. One, the gentle-spirited Yae (Aya Okumoto), attracts the attention of the band's bluff, pure-hearted Hyuga (Kenji Kohashi). Though this encounter is brief, Hyuga and the rest later rescue Yae from a trio of assassins. The assassins are three brothers who had dallied for a bit of rape and pillage on their way to their latest assignment: to dispense with Jiji and his young warriors. Their employer is Tobizaru (Minoru Matsumoto), a curly-haired ninja working for Inoue Kanbei (Katsuki Kitamura), the slithery second-in-command to Kato Kiyomasa (Naoto Takenaka), the lord of Kumamoto - and a key antishogunate plotter.
Kato is Jiji's ultimate target, but he is a wily foe, who is willing to expend hundreds of underlings to keep himself out of harm's way. His ultimate weapon, though, is Mogami Bijomaru (Jo Odagiri), an Oscar Wilde-ish fop who is never without a long-stemmed rose - and a deadly long sword.
Needless to say, Jiji's band must first get by Mogami and Kato's other minions before they can face Kato himself. It is Azumi's sword, however, that gets the most strenuous workout. [Quelle: DVDasian]
Movie-Facts
| Titel: | Azumi (あずみ) - Special Edition (2 Disc Set) |
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| Orginal Titel: | あずみ (Azumi) |
| Deutscher Titel: | Azumi |
| Genre: | Action / Fantasy |
| Studio: | Toho Company Ltd. |
| Vertrieb: | Cinexus |
| Land / Jahr: | Japan 2003 |
| Altersfreigabe: | Süd-Korea: ab 18 |
| Länge: | 128:09 Minuten |
Cast & Crew
| Regisseur: | Ryuhei KITAMURA |
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| Produzent: | Mataichiro YAMAMOTO |
| Autor: | Isao KIRIYAMA Yu KOYAMA Rikiya MIZUSHIMA |
| Kamera: | Takumi FURUYA |
| Musik: | Taroh IWASHIRO |
| Besetzung: | Aya UETO als Azumi Shun OGURI als Nachi Hiroki NARIMIYA als Ukiha Kenji KOHASHI als Hyuga Takatoshi KANEKO als Amagi Yuma ISHIGAKI als Nagara Yasutaka SANO als Nagara Shinji SUZUKI als Awa Eita NAGAYAMA als Hiei Shogo YAMAGUCHI als Komoru Kazuki KITAMURA als Inou, Kanbe'e Kenichi ENDO als Sajiki Isshin Kazuya SHIMIZU als Sajiki Nisai RYÔ als Osowareru Haha-Oya Yoshio HARADA als Gessai Masatô IBU als Nagamasa Asano Minoru MATSUMOTO als Saru Jô ODAGIRI als Bijomaru Mogami Aya OKAMOTO als Yae Tak SAKAGUCHI als Sajiki brother #2 Hideo SAKAKI als Nagato Naoto TAKENAKA als Kiyomasa Kato |
technische Daten der Disc
| Medium: | DVD |
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| Region: | Code 3 [Süd-Korea] |
| Casetype: | Keep Case (Amaray) 2 Disc im Pappschuber |
| Disctyp: | DVD 9 [Film] DVD 9 [Bonusmaterial] |
| Bildformat: | 1.85:1 [MPEG-2 anamorph] |
| Bild-Norm: | NTSC |
| Tonformate: | Japanisch Dolby Digital 5.1 [O-Ton] Japanisch dts 5.1 [O-Ton] Japanisch Dolby Digital Surround (2.0) [O-Ton] |
| Untertitel: | Koreanisch, Englisch |
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