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Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (Japanese: るろうに剣心 京都大火編, Hepburn: Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen), also known as Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno in North America, is a 2014 Japanese jidaigeki action film based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga series, and serves as the second installment of the Rurouni Kenshin film series', following the first film Rurouni Kenshin (2012).
Himura Kenshin (緋村 剣心) is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎) [note 1] (rendered as Battousai the Manslayer in the Media Blasters English anime dub, [2] as Battousai: The Slasher in the Sony English dub. [3])
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.
On June 28, 2011, a live-action film adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin was announced. [8] Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, with actual film production done by Studio Swan, the film was directed by Keishi Ōtomo and stars Takeru Satoh as Kenshin, Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara and Emi Takei as Kaoru. [9]
In December 2011, Shueisha announced Watsuki would be putting his series, Embalming -The Another Tale of Frankenstein-, on hold to begin a "reboot" of Rurouni Kenshin, called Rurouni Kenshin: Restoration, as a tie-in to the live-action film. The series began in the June 2012 issue of Jump Square, which was released on May 2, 2012, [47] and ...
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, known in Japan as Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Rōman Tan- Tsuioku-hen (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 追憶編, "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story – Recollection (or Reminiscence) Chapter"), is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) series, based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga series by Nobuhiro Watsuki, and a ...
Prior to being cast in One Piece, Godoy primarily acted in Spanish-language Mexican TV shows, before taking on a main role in Canadian superhero series The Imperfects in 2022.
[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]