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It is awful, and wasted my precious 2 hours!!!


I've watch the first Azumi about two or three months ago, and I thought it was good. So when I saw that was going to be a second one, I was so excited that just can't wait to see it.

And last evening, after I tried my best to keep myself awake until the staff list rolled up, I was so pleased and then felt angry.

Well, I like the first Azumi because it was cool to make the 19-year-old little girl face more than 100 armed man, and she slashed and cut them through.

But the director seems to be lack of creativity and just tried to repeat what he had showed the audience in the first movie. And you guys could also see in the second Azumi that the battle scene turned into small fighting games among 20 people in the maximum(expect the last scene). I think the only reason that could convince me is that their budget was just not enough.

The story was also awful. I thought that was going to be several great battle for Azumi to fight against the Ninja Group, since the Ninja was the best assasin at the time. And in fact, I was wrong. Those so-called Ninja was just doing superman-thing, and I doubt that if they know anything about Ninja, 'cause they repeated for several times that they were the best among their group. And it is funny the female boss was killed by one hit from a gangster who did not have professional training for fighting(I am talking about GinGaKu or Nachi, whatever, the guy looks exact as Azumi's boyfriend).

Well, it is enough to show my anger. If you like the first one, I would suggest you watch it again rather than waste time on the second one.

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yeah It is awful and without Ryuhei Kitamura AZUMI 2 as just a stupid samurai movie

the idea of Nachi evil twin brother who lover aya ueto - azumi that this movie is stand around coz... it was a stupid and old idea ..

Shusuke Kaneko i dont not even give him a fan rank Director he is bad ...the movie was slow ..cheap...with bad story and old style fight scenes ...



Taku Sakaguchi was the best at this crap movie


sorry about may bad english

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I expected a lot more. What pissed me off was how they shelved Chiaki. I mean, she's the third name in the opening credits and has not even 30 minutes in front of the camera. I sat there, waiting for her, then nearly 30 minutes after the movie started she finally appeared the first time. After some time she butchers Nagara (I was amused at that though) and takes out most of Tenkai's bodyguards and then? Her fight against Azumi lasts maybe 3 seconds (after talking with Azumi for an eternity about Nagara and what not), then she's suddenly dead (cause Azumi basically only sidesteps and slashes her). WTF.

I guess it's another reason why Kuriyama didn't appear at the premiere on stage, or why Azumi 2 barely ran one month in the cinemas in Japan (*notes Kagen no Tsuki, which also featuers Chiaki as the female lead, ran more than 2 months*), and why there's already a UK DVD release scheduled for August 22nd.

Also they had a few interesting characters with a lot of potential (take the female boss, she was quite interesting, and of course, Kozue). What happened to them? They died like flies, sad, really.

Personally I'd say... after Chiaki's character is dead one can turn off the movie. Cause after that you only see Aya Ueto strike cool poses with her sword (don't get me wrong, I like Aya, but eh... it started to get stupid when Nachi suddenly popped up again, and it turned really dumb when Aya tried to look angry or whatever at Kozue's body).

I'm not even going to compare Sanada to Kiyomasa from Azumi 1. If the movie would have been about Sadana vs Kiyomasa it would have been over after 5 minutes, because Kiyomasa would have outsmarted Sanada by then.

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Kagen no Tsuki didn't run more than 2 months. 4 or 5 weeks just as Azumi 2.
Neither Kagen no Tsuki nor Azumi 2 was a box-office hit.

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Did you realise that the directors for Azumi I and II are different?

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