AudioTrack : Dolby Digital Dialogue : Japanese Subtitle : English (On/Off) AspectRatio : Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) Genre : RunningTime : NumberOfDisc : 1 RegionOfTitle : Region 1 Episode : Director : Actor :
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Azumi begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji (Yoshio Harada), a gray-bearded samurai. One day, Jiji tells them they must pass a final test before they embark on the mission they have prepared for all these years. He pairs them up and . . . only five survive, including Azumi. Led by Jiji, this small band descends from the mountain that is the only world they know.
Their mission is to stop a nefarious plot to unseat the current shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, by the supporters of Hideyori, the son of deceased warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In other words, they are out to prevent a civil war of the kind that devastated their own families before Ieyasu wrested power from his rivals at the battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and imposed peace.
Their first target is Asano Nagamasa (Masato Ibu), a lecherous lord who was one of Toyotomi''s allies. He proves easy prey for Azumi''s charms, and she and her band dispose of him and his entourage in sp