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Azumi:

Azumi (???) is a manga (Japanese comic) series created by Yu Koyama. It concerns the title character, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins, charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed.

Azumi was adapted into a popular action film by Ryuhei Kitamura in 2003. A sequel, Azumi 2: Death or Love, directed by Shusuke Kaneko, followed in 2005.

Azumi

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Discovered weeping next to the body of her dead mother by a samurai master and his entourage of young students, Azumi was raised from a youth (roughly around 7-8 years old) 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.

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. Azumi and fellow classmates, with their master thus begin a journey to assasinate various warlords to prevent a civil war.

Azumi 2: Death or Love

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Immediately after the final events of Azumi, Azumi and her remaining friend are stalked by the men of a warlord she recently assasinated. Upon escaping forces they are out-numbered and "out-gunned" by, they join forces with a local resistance and a group of ragtag freedom fighters to kill the remaining warlord and bring peace to Japan.

External links

• Azumi Internet Movie Database entry
• Azumi 2: Death or Love Internet Movie Database entry
• Kung Fu Cinema Review

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