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Ryūhei KitamuraScénario:
山本又一朗Musique:
Tarō IwashiroActeurs·trices:
上戸彩, 原田芳雄, Shun Oguri, Hiroki Narimiya, Takatoshi Kaneko, 北村一輝, Ken'ichi Endō, Masayuki Ibu, Aya Okamoto, Jō Odagiri, Hideo Sakaki, Tak Sakaguchi (plus)Résumés(1)
Azumi, jeune fille orpheline, est recueillie par un maître en arts martiaux. Loin de toute civilisation, elle va apprendre avec neuf autres jeunes garçons les meilleures techniques de combat au sabre. Après plusieurs années d'entraînement, les dix compagnons, devenus de puissants guerriers assassins, doivent partir accomplir leur première mission : tuer un puissant chef de clan... (texte officiel du distributeur)
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Critiques (3)
Yeah, the scene at the end where Azumi gets it on with the long-haired dude in white is really good – the best part of the whole movie, in my opinion. Fine, but otherwise? A piddling film with an overly long running time but a lot of old familiar faces that I really liked seeing together (except that they didn't stick around long; I wanted to watch the movie for the sake of seeing Hiroki and Shun together and got nothing out of it). So Jae seemed like an artificially planted figurine whose job was to delay our assassins' assault (actually, to delay the two of them), but I only had this line for her: "You're good, just get lost." If you like sword swinging, this is a movie you might enjoy. If you don't like that, or hectoliters of blood, then don't even try it, because it doesn't offer much else. And notice that Azumi doesn't get injured for the entire movie, I give that plus points :-) That's another thing I liked.
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A lot of running through the woods, katana duels with oddly dosed splashes of blood, and a final action inferno unfolding in hastily painted chipboard sets... Samurai movies have always been about honor. This is a spectacle following the classic modern editing style, which is emotionally cold as a dog's snout because such a heap of characters won't really engage you. And Azumi herself is not up to it!
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I can't help but feel like the creators were trying to emulate grand Chinese productions like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," but in the end, they ended up with a rather small film where the emotions aren't as well conveyed as they should be, not to mention that the film isn't particularly interesting even from an action standpoint.
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