Syukri0235: ~ Azumi 2: Death or Love ~

Monday, May 3, 2010

~ Azumi 2: Death or Love ~

Dah layan movie nie semalam..... memang best.. 4/5 bintang aku bagi hahaha! Azumi 2 ni adalah kesinambungan dari movie Azumi sebelum ni. Di mana misi Azumi dalam movie yang 1st dulu masih belum selesai... tapi aku rasa kecewa skit sebab member-member seguru dengan dia suma mati....Adehh..... Aku suka tengok 'fight' ramai... tambah-tambah lagi bila ada ramai yang di pihak baik...^_^ Oklah, sebelum aku melalut panjang.. di bawah nie aku ada sediakan review skit berkenaan movie neh......

Sypnosis

Azumi 2 continues shortly after the end of the previous film with Aya Ueto returning in the title role of a young assassin charged with keeping the nation from falling into civil war. Her main opponent is a daimyo named Masayuki Sanada (Mikijiro Hira) who employs a special ninja squad.

After the end of Azumi, Azumi and her only remaining colleague Nagara find themselves hunted for the assassinations they've carried out. After a battle with ninja recruited by Kiyomasa's retainer, Kanbei, Azumi and Nagara escape and hide temporarily in a temple so Nagara can heal. While Azumi goes to buy food, she comes across some bandits in a teahouse led by Ginkaku, a young bandit who bears a striking resemblance to Azumi's former friend (and love interest) Nachi. Later, Azumi and Nagara are found by ninjas working for Tessai the priest, upon whose orders the assassins initially began their mission. After discussing it with Tessai, Azumi and Nagara leave to seek out their final target, Masayuki Sanada. A group of government ninja also accompany them, among them Kozue (Chiaki Kuriyama).

Meanwhile, Kanbei assembles a large force of mercenaries and bandits to try and take down the assassins. Amongst them are Ginkaku and his brother, Kikkaku. After ambushing Azumi and the others in a deserted town, Kanbei's ninjas attack but Ginkaku and the others change sides in order to protect Azumi. The ninjas, including their leader, are killed. Azumi and the others return to Ginkaku's family, where they are looked upon with distaste for their occupation. Azumi is torn by her attachment to the Ginkaku, but on Nagara's urging they depart.

While travelling, Kozue convinces Nagara that Azumi no longer wishes to fulfill her mission and should be talked out of it. Nagara tells Azumi he is fed up and wants to start a new life with Kozue, and that Azumi should go and live with Ginkaku, and they part ways. Azumi, still intent on carrying out the mission, attempts to locate Masayuki in his mountain temple, only to discover he has left with his army to kill Tessai. Meanwhile, Tessai and his entourage have departed for safety, but are soon tracked down by Roppa, a member of the bloodthirsty Ueno Koga clan working for Masayuki. Most of Tessai's guards are killed until Azumi arrives, as do Ginkaku and his brethren who had been following her. Roppa is killed, as are Kikkaku and several of Ginkaku's brothers.

Meanwhile, Nagara and Kozue begin their search for Masayuki, but once they are alone, Kozue reveals herself to be a hidden member of the Ueno Koga clan, and kills Nagara. Coming across Azumi later, she tells her that she and Nagara were separated, but when she attempts to kill Tessai, Azumi realises that something is not right and asks for the true fate of her friend Nagara. Kozue eventually replies that she' happened to Nagara. The two fight, with Azumi shortly becoming the winner. Azumi states she will go after Masayuki alone.

Soon Azumi meets Kunio and Tsuchigumo, and tells them that Kozue is dead. Kunio is enraged, but Tsuchigumo becomes Azumi's opponent. His weapon is razor-sharp poisoned wires. Azumi manages to cause his wires to rebound back at him - he is sliced apart. But Azumi is cut and falls into a paralytic sleep. Sanada's concubine and the true leader of the Ueno clan, Kunio, steps out of hiding to tell Azumi she hates her. Kunio feels that Azumi, who has killed so many, knows nothing of life. With the poison incapacitating Azumi, it soon came to a finishing blow, but Ginkaku appears, taking the fatal thrust and in the process mortally injuring Kunio. Ginkaku managed to dampen the poison's effect upon Azumi somehow, shortly before dying.

Kunio makes her way back to her camp, only to die in Sanada's arms. In her last conversation with him, she begs him not to give up on their dream of war. He tells her he only wanted to see her happy face.

Shortly after this, Azumi appears on a hill in the distance. Fighting her way through many of Sanada's troops, she is met by the man she intends to kill. However Sanada's son and Tessai both arrive at the same time, both wanting Sanada to retreat. Sanada is eager to kill Azumi by himself. He decides to challenge her to a duel; he tells Kanbei to leave. At the acceptance of these terms, the last member of Ginkaku's friends is killed, as he declares the decision is unjust. Sanada states that regardless of the result of the duel, they will no longer bother the Tokugawa regime ever again. Azumi, questioning whether she had ever been following a path of her own or if she and her friends had always been being used, accepts the duel. They appear to equal each other in terms of skill until Azumi breaks Sanada's spear. Sanada gets another weapon, but blood spurts from a neck wound before he manages to use it. He dies.

Azumi is allowed to leave. After a long, emotionally ambiguous silence, she walks alongside the stream of blood running from the camp.