#Rurouni kenshin kyoto inferno 2014 live action movie
It’s not perfect in this respect - at one point Kenshin’s mate Sanosuke sets off to help him, only to disappear from the movie until he suddenly appears during the final battle - but such lapses are few and do little to impact the overall flow.
As a film it finds power in that - whereas the first movie established his persona and gave it a bit of a work out, here he’s stretched to breaking point.ĭespite being only the first half of a four-and-a-half-hour epic, when compared to the original film the story here feels more streamlined, focussed, and pointed. It really puts Kenshin through the ringer, testing and questioning his beliefs and principles, and his fighting skills too. But it’s also in the scope of the story and the way it stretches the characters, both old and new.
Partly we see this in a material sense: it looks even more expensive than the first one, right from a fabulous fire-strewn opening location, and keeps up the visual impressiveness throughout. Kyoto Inferno is one of those sequels that benefits from the its predecessor establishing the world of the story and the characters that inhabit it, meaning it can launch off on its own grander scale. Our peace-loving hero initially turns the job down, but events conspire to convince him he must act, and so he sets off alone to once again face the demons of his past. Previous efforts to stop Shishio have failed, so now they want Kenshin to sort him out. Well, less left him for dead, more killed him after they won the war because he was too nasty to let stick around. Turns out one of Kenshin’s former assassin colleagues, the vicious Shishio ( Battle Royale and Death Note’s Tatsuya Fujiwara), is amassing an army to take down the government that left him for dead. This is the first half.Īfter the events of the first film, former assassin Kenshin (Takeru Satoh) is living a peaceful life with his newfound friends, until he’s summoned by the government to take on a mission. The first live-action Rurouni Kenshin film was such a success that they followed it with a two-part sequel, filmed back-to-back and originally released six weeks apart over the same summer.
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