Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura   Written by Yû Koyama   Mataichirô Yamamoto   Isao Kiriyama   Cast Aya Ueto ... Azumi Kenji Kohashi ... Hyûga Hiroki Narimiya ... Ukiha Takatoshi Kaneko ... Amagi Yûma Ishigaki ... Nagara Yasuomi Sano ... Yura Shinji Suzuki ... Awa Eita Nagayama ... Hiei (as Eita) Shôgo Yamaguchi ... Komoro Shun Oguri ... Nachi Joe Odagiri ... Bijomaru Mogami Aya Okamoto ... Yae Minoru Matsumoto ... Tobizaru Hideo Sakaki ... Nagato Ken'ichi Endô ... Isshin Sajiki Kazuya Shimizu ... Nisai Sajiki Tak Sakaguchi ... Sanzo Sajiki (as Taku Sakaguchi) Ryô ... Mother being attacked Masatô Ibu ... Nagamasa Asano Kei Satô ... Tenkai Nankôbô Kazuki Kitamura ... Kanbê Inoue Naoto Takenaka ... Kiyomasa Katô Yoshio Harada ... Gessai Obata Richard Cansino ... Bijomaru Mogami (voice) Katsushi Ikeda ... Bandit Bansuke Kasamatsu ... Nagamasa's Servant Takehiro Katayama ... Samurai Guard Fuuma Kosaka ... Young Hyuga Yûki Kuroda ... Gessai's Son Shôichirô Masumoto ... Head Bandit Michael McConnohie ... Gessai (voice) Misako Nagashima   Takeshi Nakano ... Bandit Masaki Nishimura ... Samurai Guard Kazufumi Ohba ... Samurai Guard Bryce Papenbrook ... Nachi (voice) Eden Riegel ... Azumi (voice) Houken Sonoda ... Steet Acrobat Terrence Stone ... Kiyomasa Kato (voice) Yukiharu Sugiyama ... Bandit Asuka Sukuna ... Young Azuma Yasunari Takeshima ... Samurai Guard Kazuki Tsujimoto ... Head Bandit Kanae Uotani ... Azumi's Mother Hiroaki Yamazaki ... Nagamasa's Servant Uncredited Cast Hideo Kojima ... Bandit Produced by Kazuya Hamana   Osamu Kamei   Sumio Kiga   Morihiro Kodama   Toshiaki Nakazawa   Naoyuki Sakagami   Hidemi Satani   Mataichirô Yamamoto   Toshihiro Ôsato   Original Music by Tarô Iwashiro

Additional Info Premiere: May 10, 2003 DVD Release: November 21, 2006 Country: Distributor: AsiaVision Websites: Production Companies Amuse Pictures DENTSU Music And Entertainment Nippon Herald Films Pony Canyon Sedic Shogakukan Toho Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Distributors Urban Vision Entertainment   (2006) (United States) (subtitled) (theatrical) Vitagraph Films   (2006) (United States) (theatrical) AsiaVision   (2008) (United States) (DVD) Bogeydom Licensing   (2004) (World-wide) Urban Vision Entertainment   (2006) (United States) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 7.4 / 10 Our Rating 8.0 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 7.5 / 10 Female Users 5.8 / 10 Site Ranking #4,004 / 20,981 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 8 total ratings Almost Perfect 2 total ratings Site Ranking #4,000 Goosebumps: Season 3 (1997) #4,001 I Spit On Your Grave: Vengeance Is Mine (2015) #4,002 Goosebumps: Season 2 (1996) #4,003 Mr. 3000 (2004) #4,004 Azumi (2003) #4,005 Diabolique (1996) #4,006 Luce (2019) #4,007 Captain America (1990) #4,008 Elvis & Nixon (2016)