'Azumi' is a frantic CGI-assisted Japanese period drama from cult director Ryuhei Kitamura starring pop siren Aya Ueto as a teenage assassin who begins the film as the only girl among 10 warriors who have been trained from childhood by Jiji, a grey-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 the five that survive, led by Jiji, descend from the mountain that is the only world t
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SEVEN SWORDS (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Set in remote north-west China at the birth of the Qing Dynasty in the late seventeenth century. A new law has banned martial arts on pain of death, and an army of bounty hunters, led by balding psycho Fire-Wind, targets Martial Village, where rebel lovers Wu and Han have won the friendship of a retired executioner who convinces to seek help from a master swordsmen from distant Mount Heaven. He agrees, sending four of his disciples to assist them, but as they lead the village to a safer place, t
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SHAOLIN AND WU TANG (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Gordon Liu's directorial debut, now a cult classic in its own right, has an awesome opening sequence and oodles of stunning
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THE LIFE OF O-HARU (1952)
CertificationPG Our Rating
In feudal Japan the daughter of a samurai, Oharu, falls in love with a man below her station. Expelled from the castle in Kyoto, her family tries to regain respectability but Oharu is forced into a new life as a concubine and then a fallen woman, ever hoping to preserve some semblance of purity in a corrupt world.
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