Azumi

An old master in the art of war is asked by the powerful leaders of a Japanese shogunate to raise an elite band of assassins. Among them is a young woman who was found when she was a little girl, kneeling in shock by her dead mother. The girl is taken in and raised with intensive training in samurai sword fighting and marital arts. She is placed with an elite team of other deadly assassins and sent on a desperate mission for her shogun rulers.