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Rurouni Kenshin was the first Japanese live action series invited to be screened in Movie Franchise Section in Shanghai International Film Festival, which was newly established in 2016, while only Hollywood blockbuster franchises have been invited before. [16] [17] This was also the international premiere of The Final and The Beginning.
Rurouni Kenshin was the first Japanese live action series invited to be screened in Movie Franchise Section in Shanghai International Film Festival, which was newly established in 2016, while only Hollywood blockbuster franchises have been invited before. [10] [11] This was also the international premiere of The Final and The Beginning.
Mackenyu as Yukishiro Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final. In his animated appearances, Enishi was voiced by Nozomu Sasaki. [7] During shooting of the film Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, the battle between Kenshin and Enishi had to be remade several times because Satoh got exhausted of moving four times in total. Satoh praised Arata's work as ...
Heishin tries to have the Sū-shin take Enishi's revenge by killing Kenshin, but Kenshin's friends take them on so he can save his energy for Enishi. [ ch. 237 , 238 ] Seiryū ( 青龍 ) fights using a naginata -like weapon and prides himself on being able to determine his opponents moves and conquer them.
Ōtomo said he aimed to make the live-action more complex than the original manga version. [10] During an interview, Satoh said Rurouni Kenshin was one of the first manga he read to the point he would play sword-fights with his friends. Additionally, once he was cast as Kenshin, Satoh started intense swordsmanship training. [11]
[14] 2018 was a busy year with series Kiss That Kills and movies Chihayafuru Part III, manga-based Impossibility Defense and speed-drive action-drama Over Drive. In 2019, he was cast as the final villain, Yukishiro Enishi, in the last two movies of the Rurouni Kenshin live-action adaptation. [15]
The live-action film adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin was announced on June 28, 2011. [76] Produced by Warner Bros., with actual film production done by Studio Swan, the films were directed by Keishi Ōtomo and starred Takeru Satoh (of Kamen Rider Den-O fame) as Kenshin, Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara, and Emi Takei as Kaoru. [77]
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends was released in Japan, on September 13, 2014, by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan; one month after Kyoto Inferno. Two further installments in the film series were released in 2021: Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, a sequel to The Legend Ends, and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, a prequel to the entire series.