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:
1. Azumi (2003)

Cast



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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Comments

Comment #2
Lina Says:
Jan 30 2010 10:24 pm

Somehow Oguri Shun looks different after Azumi1. Younger, perhaps?
Comment #1
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.