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Azumi (2006)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:12

Rotten:16

Average Rating:5.2/10

Consensus: This adaptation of the popular manga series offers exquisitely choreographed violence -- and little else.

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: A young orphan is raised to be a deadly assassin in AZUMI. With Japan at war the only hope is for the murder of the deadly warlords who wreak havoc on the country, leading to some fearsome battle... A young orphan is raised to be a deadly assassin in AZUMI. With Japan at war the only hope is for the murder of the deadly warlords who wreak havoc on the country, leading to some fearsome battle scenes as the young, female assassin goes to work. [More]

Starring: Aya Ueto

Starring: Aya Ueto

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura

Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Studio: Asiavision

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01/17/06
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04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

What will slay you first--the often histrionic acting or the drag-out boredom of that hulking, two-hour-plus thing in the distance that faintly resembles a plot?

Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada) | comment Comment
09/11/07
Brian Gibson
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

The raw visceral pleasures are enough to carry the film past some clunky melodrama that bloats the film to a two-hour-plus run time.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
08/26/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

The tone is bleak and the comic-book violence relentless, but the wirework and Yuta Morokaji's stunt choreography are impressive.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/18/07
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader

Nothing can lift the glaze from your eyes through the endlessly recurring hokey fight scenes of the movie's interminable 128-minute running time.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

Azumi may be an outstanding assassin, but the makers of this movie killed any chances of her being the next great action hero.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
10/01/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

It's a zippy time-passer.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
09/07/06
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune

Ryuhei Kitamura is 37, but he makes films like a 15-year-old fanboy. That is, he has no sense of story, his visual style is basically point-and-shoot, the boys are cool and rebellious and the girls are cute.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/28/06
G. Allen Johnson
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle

Ueto -- who was only a teenager when the film was made -- is no great actress, but her impressive agility and magnetic presence provide director Ryuhei Kitamura a perfect centerpiece around which to orchestrate his blistering ballet of blood.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/28/06
Wade Major
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine

Azumi is slick, violently beautiful and appeals directly to the lower sensations. But just because it thrills doesn't necessarily mean it's artless.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
07/28/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

An uneven effort overall that when it is working has a strange, engaging energy that is often overturned by an uncertain staidness.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/27/06
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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It's a B-movie through and through and its indulgences come from loving the genre too much, not bracketing it with postmodern quotation marks.

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07/27/06
George Wu
George Wu
culturevulture.net

Failing in its attempts at Zhang Yimou–like poetry, Azumi calls to mind a long, blood-splattered director’s cut of a Power Rangers episode.

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07/27/06
James C. Taylor
James C. Taylor
L.A. Weekly

...teen idol Ueto...is not believable as a warrior for even a second.

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07/27/06
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Though it contains some superbly staged and highly lavish action sequences...[the film] lacks the tautness of its heroine.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment 1 Comment
07/25/06
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

This is fun because it's soo damn stupid.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
07/21/06
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

Overdone and overlong, but its lunatic flavor -- check out Joe Odagiri's Tiny Tim as ninja sadist -- saves the day.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
07/21/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

Azumi (based on a 25-part manga series) has eye-popping battle sequences, but the story is superficial at best.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/21/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
 
 
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