Line #1 Film/Azumi


1	%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
2
3	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/azumi_2466.png]]
4
5	''Azumi'' (2003) is an extremely violent action movie by Ryuhei Kitamura, based on [[Manga/{{Azumi}} a manga series]] created by Yū Koyama, focusing on the life of Azumi, a young woman brought up as part of a team of assassins charged with killing three warlords that threaten Feudal Japan with an agenda of war and bloodshed. It begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara, but as the story progresses and Azumi begins her missions, the manga introduces the characters into mainstream history. Many of the early assassination missions that Azumi undertakes are the assassinations of the prominent supporters and generals of the Toyotomi Clan, against whom the Tokugawa Clan expected to again go to war. The manga 'reveals' that many of the Toyotomi leaders who conveniently died of diseases or accidents prior to the final confrontation between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa were actually victims of assassinations by Azumi and her comrades.
6
7	In 2005, a sequel was made, ''Azumi 2: Death or Love'', featuring Creator/ChiakiKuriyama of ''Film/KillBill'' fame and co-written by cult anime director Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri.
8	----
9	!! The movies contain examples of:
10
11	* BadassCape: Azumi wears a dark blue cape in the first movie, in the climatic town battle as she wipes out dozens upon dozens of enemies in one lengthy battle sequence. She ditches the cape in the sequel, however.
12	%%* BloodKnight: Bijoumaru... by all the Gods, Bijoumaru.
13	* BodyDouble: Kato in the first movie, after hearing of Asano's death, decide to employ a double in his place. Which works, the following day have Azumi and friends ambushing Kato's carriage, with Azumi kicking the carriage off a hill, but the person who fell to his death in the carriage is Kato's double, with the real Kato nowhere in sight.
14	%%* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Technically they're ''[[Manga/RurouniKenshin hitokiri]]'', but the trope applies.
15	* CumbersomeClaws: The second movie, ''Death or Love'', has Azumi being menaced by a group of ninjas armed with WolverineClaws strapped to their wrists, allowing them to climb buildings, leap all over the place and perform all kinds of summersaults without becoming loose. But this backfires for the ninja leader -- as he missed a swing at Azumi, the leader [[LeftStuckAfterAttack accidentally stabs his claws into a guardrail]], and quickly gets his entire hand hacked off by Azumi before she kills him.
16	* CurbStompBattle:
17	** Most of the fights in the first movie, at least in Azumi's case. All [[spoiler: but one]] of her TrueCompanions eventually fall to [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil the waves of enemies sent against them]], but Azumi always survives without even a scratch. By the end of the movie, her personal kill count is in the hundreds, albeit aided by a bit of UnfriendlyFire.
18	** Subverted in the second movie. Azumi defeats all of the elite ninja, but is poisoned in one of the later fights, and would have died without Ginkaku's assistance.
19	* DeadlyGraduation: The ten young assassin students were told to pair up with the person they liked the most before their final exam. Then they were told to fight each other to the death.
20	* {{Determinator}}: Aya Ueto did many of her own stunts, during the filming of one fight on the first day she was struck on the forehead with a prop sword. The Director was worried that the injury might cause her to pull out of the production. She returned to the set the very next day ready to continue filming.
21	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Saru delivers a MercyKill to [[spoiler:Hyuga]] even though Bijomaru deliberately injured him in such a way that his death would be slow and painful.
22	* {{Expy}}: Roppa from the second film is a live-action [[Anime/NinjaScroll Tessai]]. They're both balding, hulking brutes who uses giant boomerangs that slices his unfortunate victims into bits, are TheDreaded among the villains, and their comeuppance [[spoiler: involves them getting killed by their own weapons]].
23	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
24	** Roppa has a giant BattleBoomerang that slices anybody unfortunate to get in its way into half.
25	** [[spoiler: Tsuchigumo gets sliced into sizeable chunks by his own RazorFloss]].
26	* HighPressureBlood: Both movies delivers bloody deaths in ''gallons'', thanks to the setting where everyone uses katanas and edged weapons to slice and dice each other apart.
27	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A few baddies in the second movie.
28	** Roppa is [[spoiler: blown up by his own bandoleer of dynamites.]]
29	** Azumi vs Tsuchigumo, in a bamboo forest booby-trapped by Tsuchigumo's RazorFloss. [[spoiler: Azumi wins the battle by slicing at the bamboo trees holding the wires in place, causing Tsuchigumo's wires to hit himself instead and slicing him into bloody chunks]].
30	* LittleMissBadass: Azumi herself. In the manga, she is barely pubescent, and Toho casts the then-18-year-old Aya Ueto for the movie adaptation, though, and she turns out to be lethal enough to wipe out an entire town of enemy soldiers.
31	* NoSocialSkills: Growing up in isolation (and learning the fine art of bloody murder, lest we forget) deprives all of the ten of these.
32	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Bijoumaru]] in the first movie's finale, by Azumi's katana. He didn't even realize she had inflicted a fatal blow on him, [[YouAreAlreadyDead but then a fine red line starts forming on his throat]]...
33	* OneWomanArmy: More like One Teenage Girl Army, but the first movie had Azumi marching into a town full of enemies, and slaughtering everyone in it in an excessively lengthy battle scene.
34	* OrphanageOfFear: Subverted - the ten are all war orphans, but being trained as killers turns it into an Orphanage Of Doombringers, until... see DeadlyGraduation above.
35	* SheCleansUpNicely: Azumi in the first movie; after befriending Yae and deciding to leave her career as an assassin, in her next scene Azumi is in a feminine-looking kimono and her hair undone.
36	* SingleStrokeBattle: Azumi vs. Bijomaru at the climax of the first movie, sort of. They spend some time running and jumping around, trading ineffectual attacks, then they pause in the plaza, Bijomaru gives Azumi his WorthyOpponent line, and this is how the duel ends.
37	* SomethingAboutARose: One character, a long-haired, white-clad, psychotic biseinen, first appears holding a red rose, for no other apparent reason than to look cool.
38	* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: After Azumi and her comrades easily dispose of a bunch of nameless Mooks, the EvilOverlord decides to set an ambush with his better-trained ninja - who are promptly slaughtered. At this point he enlists a band of bloodthirsty mercenaries. When this still doesn't work, he goes into a prison to release a psychotic mass murderer (who happens to be a master swordsman) and gives him the rest of his troops, plus an ''entire town'' of cutthroats as backup.
39	* TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort: Bijomaru uses a sword with no handguard, to show he's such a skilled fighter that he never needs to parry. Differs from most examples of this trope in that he dodges the attacks instead of just [[NoSell No Selling]] them.
40	* MeleeATrois: Late in the first movie's finale, the mercenaries led by Bijoumaru, having a dispute over the soldiers indiscriminately firing their arrows and killing a bunch of their numbers, decides to turn on their employers. The unexpected in-fighting results in three parties - Azumi, the mercenaries, and the soldiers - slicing up each other at the same time.
41	* TerribleTrio: The first movie has the Sanjiki brothers, a trio of bandits who serves the villains. Their first scene have them heartily drinking ''sake'' in a mansion full of dead bodies, slaughtered by the trio, and later on they gleefully partake in massacring a band of travelling circus performers, killing all except Yae, where Azumi and two of her brothers arrived in time in a BigDamnHeroes moment.
42	* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: at the end of the first movie, the one remaining warlord is enjoying a leisurely cruise to his next destination, his ship practically in the middle of the ocean as he invites his bodyguard to join him at the ''onsen''. [[SurprisinglySuddenDeath Cue Azumi leaping out of the ocean to finish him off.]]
43	* WolverineClaws: The second movie has a band of enemy ninjas who tried to rough up Azumi and friends with clawed gauntlets. The impracticality of using this type of weapon is shown when the ninja's leader tries to fight Azumi; a missed swing results in the ninja leader being LeftStuckAfterAttack, his claws embedded into a guardrail, at which point Azumi hacks off his clawed arm before slicing his throat.
44	* YouAreAlreadyDead: [[spoiler: It takes around 5 seconds for Bijoumaru to realize he's defeated. But then his head rolls off his shoulders]].

Context Film / Azumi