In Japan in times of war among clans, the master samurai Gessai (Yoshio Harada) raises ten orphans in the mountains, one of them the girl Azumi (Aya Ueto), and they become experts in martial arts. When they are teenagers, the master assigns them to a mortal test, and then the five survivors travel with him with the mission of killing three evil warlords of clans and keeping their nation united without plunging again into a bloody war.
"Azumi" is a great adaptation to the screen of a character of a manga, a Japanese comic book. The cinematography and the choreography of the sword battles are amazing, but the story is flawed. In my opinion, the journey of the orphans against the evil warlords loses sense when each one kills the respective best friend and when they see innocent people being slaughtered in a village and do not help them. Their friendship and bounds are destroyed with their first action, and their sense of justice is completely lost when they let the bandits kill the poor harmless villagers. The intention of making the group cold-blood killers is never reached and I did not like the destructive character of the master. But the movie is a great entertainment. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Azumi"
"Azumi" is a great adaptation to the screen of a character of a manga, a Japanese comic book. The cinematography and the choreography of the sword battles are amazing, but the story is flawed. In my opinion, the journey of the orphans against the evil warlords loses sense when each one kills the respective best friend and when they see innocent people being slaughtered in a village and do not help them. Their friendship and bounds are destroyed with their first action, and their sense of justice is completely lost when they let the bandits kill the poor harmless villagers. The intention of making the group cold-blood killers is never reached and I did not like the destructive character of the master. But the movie is a great entertainment. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Azumi"