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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).
Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan- Original Soundtrack III -Kyoto Kessen-(るろうに剣心 –明治剣客浪漫譚– オリジナル・サウンドトラック III —京都決戦—, lit. Rurouni Kenshin: Romantic Tales of a Meiji Swordsman The Original Soundtrack III -Kyoto Decisive Battle-) was released on April 21, 1997. [3]
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: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends adapt the Kyoto arc of the manga. [82] [83] [84] In April 2019, it was announced that two new live-action films would adapt the Remembrance/Tenchu and Jinchu arcs; [85] the films, titled Rurouni Kenshin: The Final and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, premiered in 2021. [86]
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.
He reprised the role of Himura Kenshin in two sequel films of Rurouni Kenshin live action franchise, Kyoto Inferno and The Legend Ends, both of which were released in 2014. [17] [18] Rurouni Kenshin manga author Nobuhiro Watsuki praised Satoh's performance and called him the ideal actor to portray Kenshin. [19]
He reprises his role from the Kyoto arc in the OVAs Kenshin also appears in other animated retelling of the series titled New Kyoto Arc from 2011 and 2012. [23] [24] Shishio is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara in the 2014 live-action films Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends. In the former one, Kenshin discovers ...
South China Morning Post described Rurouni Kenshin as Tanigaki's most popular project, [10] and Tanigaki himself acknowledged that the film generated the most response among all his projects. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] Tanigaki later returned as the action director for the 2014 back-to-back sequels Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno and Rurouni Kenshin: The ...