Azumi (2003) In war-torn Shogunate Japan Azumi (Aya Ueto) is a beautiful young girl who has been trained from childhood with nine other orphans to become a fearless assassin. Martial arts master Gessai (Yoshio Harada) has raised the ten children in complete seclusion in the hope that his protgs will one day defeat the merciless warlords and restore peace to the land. To test that they are the ruthless killers they will need to be for the mission Gessai orders them to pair o
In war-torn Shogunate Japan Azumi (Aya Ueto) is a beautiful young girl who has been trained from childhood with nine other orphans to become a fearless assassin. Martial arts master Gessai (Yoshio Harada) has raised the ten children in complete seclusion in the hope that his protgs will one day defeat the merciless warlords and restore peace to the land. To test that they are the ruthless killers they will need to be for the mission Gessai orders them to pair off and fight to the
Picking up shortly after the events in the first film Jpop sensation Aya Ueto continues her foray into the cinema fold in reprising her role as Azumi the young ninja assassin charged with the burden of preventing her nation falling into civil war. However rival Masayuki Sanada (Mikijiro Hira) is the government official determined to upset the delicate balance of national unity and steer Japan away from its destined course... Set around the beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate perio
Haru has an excellent sense of taste and surpassing skill in the kitchen but she and her first husband got divorced after just one year of marriage because of her impetuous character. One day Dennai Funaki samurai chef from Kaga proposes that Haru should marry his son and heir. The Funaki family serves the Lords of Kaga not with the sword but with the kitchen-knife and have been renowned as “Kitchen Samurai” for generations. But Haru's new husband Yasunobu wields a kitchen-knife with no skill whatsoever. In order to save the Funaki family name and its position as kitchen samurai Haru decides to teach Yasunobu the art of cuisine. The story is inspired by a real-life family in Kaga which has survived countless upheavals with its cuisine.
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