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Ashura

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Believing he's accidentally killed an innocent girl named Tsubaki (Rie Miyazawa), famed demon hunter Izumo (Somegoro Ichikawa) hangs up his sword and becomes an actor in the kabuki theater. When he meets Tsubaki again, now a thief imbued with mysterious powers, he tries to learn about her abilities and falls in love with her in the process. Unfortunately, Ashura, the prophesied Queen of Darkness, is being resurrected, and Izumo finds himself torn between good and evil.

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12/30/2015 Bizarre film. The main character acts like he's in a comedy and the main heavy seems to have come out of an '80s hair band. Overall it had too much incomprehensible action and not enough plot. See more 11/01/2012 Kabuki... cheesy, action packed love story with glowing green demon goo awesomeness. See more 04/22/2012 Some cheesy graphics, but overall a good movie. Some of the images are beautiful, and it doesn't hurt to have a handsome lead actor, either ;) See more 03/25/2012 Izumo... Your blood was... delicious... See more 02/01/2012 You know, at first the action was kinda lame but then as it kept going it was pretty damn good. I enjoyed this alot, and the comedy I got about half way in. Decent watch. See more 07/30/2011 Sure, the free-wheeling action finally spins out of control in the final third, as the story's holes get bigger and the acting strays too far into theatrical histrionics. But let's not take too seriously that which is not meant to be taken too seriously. See more Read all reviews
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Yojiro Takita

Director

Somegoro Ichikawa

Izumo Wakuraba

Rie Miyazawa

Tsubaki

Kanako Higuchi

Bizan

Atsuro Watabe

Jaku Abe

Takashi Naitô

Nobuyuki Kuninari
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Synopsis Believing he's accidentally killed an innocent girl named Tsubaki (Rie Miyazawa), famed demon hunter Izumo (Somegoro Ichikawa) hangs up his sword and becomes an actor in the kabuki theater. When he meets Tsubaki again, now a thief imbued with mysterious powers, he tries to learn about her abilities and falls in love with her in the process. Unfortunately, Ashura, the prophesied Queen of Darkness, is being resurrected, and Izumo finds himself torn between good and evil.
Director
Yojiro Takita
Producer
Shuji Miyajima
Production Co
Shochiku Co. Ltd.
Genre
Action, Fantasy
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 59m
Sound Mix
Dolby