EPISODE ONE : OF SERVITUDE AND LONELINESS
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Again , I prepare for war...a batlle to the death, but this time is different...until now, my life has been lived for myself, all my actions to find the answers to my own questions, and people have paid for it...died for it...Suddenly , it all recedes into a narcissistic haze....For the first time, I pick up my sword for someone else...this is about honor, about justice...I gave my world....
I've beaten ronins, ninjas, rascals that fested in the depths of EDO,...in the roots of my soul... a reflection of my own jealously,
my own self-hatred...and now, I'm ready to give myself up for a greater cause....
OLD JAPAN
TOKKAIDO ROAD
AZUMI calmly:"Those who take the sword will be destroyed by it,it is FATE !...
If you have a lingering attachment to this life, do not draw your sword !...."
FOUR MONTHS LATER
EDO ,CAPITAL OF THE SHOGUNATE
You have no past, no legacy, you need something,... A PURPOSE! They will give you what you crave...
a DIRECTION, and though you don't know it, that which you've desired most of all....RESPONSABILITY!
Among the strangest sights on the streets of EDO, was the wandering KOMUSO, a flute-playing monk from the FUKE-SHU sect, originally a ZEN sect .... KOMUSO means literally "monk of emptiness"....Somehow, the anonymity afforded by the KOMUSO garb led many ronin to adopt the KOMUSO life unofficially, which probably gained the sect a bad name on several occasions....
THERE'S NO PLACE FOR MAN'S COMPASSION OR PRIDE IN HELL...
YOU EITHER KILL OR BE KILLED...IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER....!
ATTACK !.... Pivoting on herself, AZUMI blocked thrusts and blows from different directions !...
Sometimes you throw a stone in the pond and the ripples keep spreading and spreading...
until they're so small they seem to die out...but the secret is...they never really do...
Three menacing daimyo's guards double-armed with yari and naginata advanced across the court of the temple....
IT'S A GAME WHERE I MAKE UP THE RULES AS I GO...A GAME OF LIFE AND DEATH...
I ALWAYS FIND A WAY...MY KATANA 'S LEADING THE WAY....
THE MAN :"I'M THE CLAN FENCING INSTRUCTOR HENMA SHICHIBEI
from the KOGEN ITTORYU SCHOOL OF FENCING!...SAY YOUR PRAYERS...!"
AZUMI :"OH GOD !...IS THAT REALITY OR ILLUSION ?!...MY GOD, that it should come to this !...
I feel being transported into the NETHERWORLD !....I had come amongst them...I could feel them before me...
My burden went before me and led me INEXORABLY along the foul road of HELL !....I'M DYING !...."
AZUMI :"HOLD ON !...LET ME TRY THIS !...MY TIME HASN'T COME YET!..."
USING THE FLAT SHINOGI OF HER BLADE AS A MIRROR, AZUMI DEFLECTED THE HELLISH
STRIKING FLUID AWAY AND SENT IT BACKWARD TO TENKAI !...
...THEN WITH HER LAST REMAINING BREATH OF LIFE, AZUMI TUCKED HER CAPE UNDER HER ARM,
FLIPPED OVER IN THE AIR AND... WITH A POWERFUL BLOW , CUT OFF THE PRIEST'S HEAD !
AZUMI :" YOUR DIVINE PUNISHMENT !..."
TENKAI :"AAGGRRRHHH....MY BLOOD... MY SWEET BLOOD !...
NO ! NOOO!!...NOT MY SOUL !...NOT MY EVERLASTING FAITH !!!...MONSTERS !...INGRATES !...
TREACHEROUS AND CRUEL DEMONS !....DON'T TAKE ME WITH YOU !....AAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!...."
In his sream, I hear his weakness and his hellish world becomes hollow...I live with death every day...
It holds no attraction for me...I see it for what it is...AN EASY OUT...I BREAK THE SPELL !"
WAIT !...IT WASN'T OVER YET !... HERE COMES THE FIREARMS SQUAD !
AZUMI :"WELL ! THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO AGAINST THESE MATCHLOCK MUSKETS ! !...I'M GONNA BE SHOT !..."
"AIM!....READY!....FIRE !".....BANG ! BANG ! BANG ! BANG!.....
AZUMI :"MY LAST CHANCE !...SHURIKEN !...EEEYYAAAAHHHH !...."
And that was our last vision of AZUMI throwing herself in the air against the muskets in the mist of firing powder !....
DAIBOSATSU PASS, Mount MITAKE
A small shrine...An exalted saint stood on this spot many years ago...He prayed that the water falling east and west
would be pure and burried an buddha's stone image there...The water falling east became Tamagawa River,
and to the west, Fuefuki River...Flowing continually, they helped the people raise rich crops....
The sun rised on the mountainous regions of YOSHINO...shadows fade...I've returned to my homeland, whole again....
No matter how dark the nights are, somehow I always feel stronger in the dawn....
Note from ACTIONPAL:
A few names and places used in this feature are only fictional and therefore shouldn't be taken seriously. Thanks.
Azumi is an adaptation of a long-running manga (25 volumes) about a young female ninja or kunoichi, operating in secret during the TOKUGAWA regime in JAPAN. Her skill with her weapons is unparalleled, but being a ruthless assassin doesn't come as naturally as she'd like to believe, and before long her heart and her mission will collide....For the movie site, click
"AZUMI 2".
Background music : AZUMI Theme "NEGAI" sung by MINA GANAHA.
Ten no kiyora sa yo
Hana no kiyora sa yo...
Negai wo,kanaete,mata,taku hoshi yo
Dakishime au koto,akiramenai
Shakunetsu no,taiyou sae mo,tsuki no,hohoemi mo
Kesshite,todokanai yami ni,furuete mo
Ten no kiyora sa yo
Kimi ga miru sora ni wa,niji oikaketetara,itsuka,aeru ne...
Afureta,shizuku wa,kusa,ki wo tsutau
Yasashii kimochi wo,tashikametai
Itsu datte,yume wa mirai ni,tsuzuite,iru kara
Tatoe,kigi no zawameki ni,obiete mo
Hana no kiyora sa yo
Kimi no mayou mori ni,hana,sonna,hana ni naritai
Ten no kiyora sa yo
Niji no hajimaru basho ga,doro darake de mo,soko de,aitai
Hana no kiyora sa yo
Ten no kiyorasa yo
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