Azumi is the kind of movie to skip the two hours of not doing something else. It resembles too many other Japan Medieval Age related movies, so that I cannot tell you the type of this movie. You shall see naïve acting, as the 70's Chinese Kung-fu movies, the villains are "ugly" (they make faces can you believe it), they scream (telling us they are the bad guys), they fight like stupid. As for the story itself, I would describe it a strange combination of not "original at all" and "cheap philosophy". As you watch it, you'll see "the development" of heroes, the adventure as it happens (nothing really, except for fighting and some motivating tragedies, if I might call them as such), and suddenly all heroes tend to have different, non-natural path. Somehow this changes also. I mean, they get separated and then they get together, although none could logically find how and what happened with the others (well, I exaggerate a bit). Then, I don't know why they dance so much in sword fighting. It is gracious and aesthetic, of course, but I wonder how one could kill somebody while he/ she is looking on the other side. Or, the same old story, how come one can fight hundreds, and these ones attack only one by one. Or, why should I cut somebody with a sword and then I need a three seconds (ritually made) statue-like posture? And so on
Forget about my irony, watch it only if you don't have anything else to do, it's not tiring at all, it tends to be even entertaining (if you are less than 13), and the choreography of the martial art scenes are, as usual, nice
Cute to kill insomnia, or to wait for your parents in law, or to have a break while working at home in an exhausting project, and so on
