Azumi 2: Death or Love
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- Movie: Azumi 2: Death or Love
- Romaji: Azumi 2: Death or Love
- Japanese: あずみ２ Death or Love
- Director: Shusuke Kaneko
- Writer: Yu Koyama, Mataichiro Yamamoto
- Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Mataichiro Yamamoto
- Cinematography: Yoshitaka Sakamoto
- Release Date: March 12, 2005
- Runtime: 108 min
- Production Company: Nippon Herald Films, TBS, Shogakukan Productions, Toshiba Entertainment, Toho
- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
It’s been some time since Azumi and Nagara finished their grueling training as lethal young assassins in the service of the shogun, a training that finished with the ruthless final test – to kill their longtime training partner (in Azumi’s case, Nachi, who could have been her first love), or perish themselves. The bitter memory of this cruel moment still haunts Azumi, but then, so do the hordes of brutal killers who pursue her and Nagari, now hunters and the hunted at the same time. A civil war is brewing, and the pair’s mission is to stave it off by assassinating those who would wish to see it occur. Their main target is Masayuki Sanada, heavily protected by a small army of killers, but on the way they encounter a colourful gang of bandits, one of whom, Ginkaku, is a dead ringer for the late, lamented Nachi…
Notes
- Related titles:
- Azumi (2003)
Cast
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| Aya Ueto | Yuma Ishigaki | Chiaki Kuriyama | Shun Oguri | Kenichi Endo | Reiko Takashima | Mikijiro Hira |
| Azumi | Nagara | Kozue | Ginkaku | Kinkaku | Kunyo | Masayuki Sanada |
Other Cast Members:
- Kai Shishido - Hanzou
- Eugene Nomura - Samurai Z
- Tak Sakaguchi - Tsuchi-gumo
- Shoichiro Masumoto - Saburouta
- Kenji Takechi - Kiheita
- Ai Maeda - Chiyo
- Toshie Negishi - Yone
- Toshiya Nagasawa - Sanada
- Shigeru Koyama - Nankou-bou Tenkai
- Kazuki Kitamura - Kanbei Inoue
- Shun Ito - Kizimaru
- Yasuomi Sano - Yura
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Lina Says:
Jan 30 2010 10:24 pm
Somehow Oguri Shun looks different after Azumi1. Younger, perhaps?
Mister JONES Says:
Nov 26 2009 6:15 pm
It was a long time in coming out and yet worth the wait. Not as much action but a worthy sequel indeed.