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
My first thoughts are that it's not as good as the original, the ooooh and aaah bits in the film are basically the same ones from the first. I found the title a bit misleading too 'Death or Love', I think Azumi Chapter 2 would have been more fitting, as I didn't grasp any serious choice between death and love being made.
The film carries pretty much straight on after the second with the final hit of there mission being sought. He's well protected by some suitably weird bodyguards (that I thought looked like they came straight from Monkey) and even a bit of magic (that closely resembled the weirding way from Dune).
The fight scenes are very well choreographed, and it looks like the director has found out about blood spurts for special effects, though I thought they only worked in some scenes and looked like a comedy B movie in others, but you take it all in your stride with this type of genre.
Overall I'm glad I bought it, there's no way I could have left it after seeing the first.
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Sequel to the Japanese period action film. For their next mission, Azumi (Aya Ueto) and Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki) head towards the Kudo Mountains with the help of a beautiful female ninja (Chiaki Kuriyama) to track down and kill Sanada (Toshiya Nagasawa). On the journey, Azumi meets a young thief, Ginkaku (Shun Oguri), who resembles her first love and friend Nachi, whom she was ordered to kill to prove her worth as an assassin. As Azumi and Ginkaku's feelings towards each other grow, Ginkaku tries to persuade Azumi to quit her life as an assassin and lead a normal life with him. Nagara is advised by Kozue (Chiaki Kuriyama) to let Azumi go her own way, unaware that Kozue has motives of her own for wanting to split them up. As Azumi draws nearer to her target, she must defeat the armies that have been sent to kill her and learn the awful truth about Kozue.
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