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Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan: Tsuioku hen (1999) -- In the era of Japan's Meiji Restoration, an assassin regains his humanity.

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Director:
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Writers:
L.B. Bartholomee (american version)
Masashi Sogo (screenplay)
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Genre:
Animation | Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Romance more
Plot:
In the era of Japan's Meiji Restoration, an assassin regains his humanity. full summary | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Blue Velvet spiced into Shogun Assassin more (36 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Mayo Suzukaze ... Kenshin Himura
Junko Iwao ... Tomoe Yukishiro
Nozomu Sasaki ... Enishi Yukishiro
Masami Suzuki ... Shinta
Shûichi Ikeda ... Seijûrô Hiko
Tomokazu Seki ... Kogorô Katsura
Wataru Takagi ... Shinsaku Takasugi
Ryûsei Nakao ... Îzuka
Hirotaka Suzuoki ... Hajime Saitô
Yôko Ogai ... Sôshi Okita (as Akari Hibino)
Minoru Uchida ... Tatsumi
Tetsuya Iwanaga ... Akira Kiyosato
Satoshi Tsuruoka ... Jubei Shigekûra
Mitsuaki Hoshino ... Katagai
Hiromi Setsu ... Ikumatsu
Rikiya Koyama ... Toshizô Hijikata
Hiroshi Takahashi ... Isami Kondô
Hiroshi Shimozaki ... Sudo
Norihisa Mori ... Ishiji
Azusa Nakao ... Kasumi
Noriko Namiki ... Akane
Kaori Yuasa ... Sakura
Shizuka Okohira ... Landlady
Takahiro Hirano ... Soldier
Teppei Takasugi ... Soldier
Tomokazu Yokoyama ... Soldier
Makoto Ueki ... Patriot
Kôichi Tateishi ... Brigand
Hidenori Konda ... Brigand
Nobuyuki Saitô ... Brigand
Mariko Nagahama ... Shirakawa Woman
Sachiko Ikeda ... Nobii
Miki Nôsô ... Woman
Naomi Matamura ... Woman
Reiji Kamiya
Naoko Seto
Mitsuyo Tanaka
Mika Ishibashi
Sachie Maruyama
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

L.B. Bartholomee ... Iizuka (voice: English version) (as L.B. Bartholomee)
Jose Brown ... Kondo (voice: English version)
John Bull ... Hijikata (voice: English version)
Katherine Catmull ... Katsu, Shinta (voice: English version)
Ray Clayton ... Kiyosato (voice: English version)
Ken Cook ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Rebecca Davis ... Tomoe (English version) (voice: English version)
Smokey Delange ... Shigekura (voice: English version)
Martinique Duchene ... Kuma, Flower Vendor (voice: English version)
Mallard Fillmore ... Soudou (voice: English version)
Lainie Frasier ... Landlady (voice: English version)
Corey Gagne ... Katsura (voice: English version)
Brian Gaston ... Enishi (voice: English version)
Sammy Harte ... Additional Characters
Christa Kimlicko-Jones ... Kasumi (voice: English version)
Ellie McBride ... Etoro (voice: English version)
Tish Morone ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Noah Passavoy ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jason Phelps ... Takasugi (voice: English version)
John Paul Shephard ... Tatsumi (voice: English version)
Boon Sheridan ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jason P. Stingley ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Douglas Taylor ... Katagai (voice: English version)
Lara Toner ... Ikumatsu (voice: English version)
Kari Waggoner ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
J. Shanon Weaver ... Kenshin Himura, Okita (voice: English version) (as J. Shannon Weaver)

Ken Webster ... Saitou (voice: English version)
Cyndi Lou Williams ... Urara (voice: English version)
Joe York ... Hiko (voice: English version)
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Directed by
Kazuhiro Furuhashi 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
L.B. Bartholomee  american version
Masashi Sogo  screenplay
Nobuhiro Watsuki  writer

Produced by
Katsunori Furihashi .... producer: SME Visual Works [jp]
Hiroshi Hasegawa .... executive producer
Yoshinori Naruke .... producer
Kazuki Noguchi .... producer
Ryuzo Shirakawa .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Taku Iwasaki 
 
Cinematography by
Masahide Okino 
 
Art Direction by
Masami Hagiwara 
 
Sound Department
Shoji Hata .... sound director
Minoru Yamada .... sound effects
Toshiyuki Yoshida .... sound recording engineer
 
Animation Department
Masahide Yanagisawa .... character designer
 
Music Department
Otohiko Fujita .... musician: horn
Masakazu Ishibashi .... musician: oboe
Megumi Ishibashi .... musician: horn
Yoshio Kizu .... musician: flute
Hijiri Kuwano .... musician: strings
Hajime Miura .... musician: percussion
Eric Miyashiro .... musician: trumpet
Eijiro Nakagawa .... musician: trombone
Midori Takada .... musician: percussion
 
Other crew
Neal Barnes .... subtitle timing (English version)
Kelly Jean Beard .... production assistant (English version)
Maki Nagano .... production assistant (English version)
Masami Takahashi .... production assistant (English version)
Akiko Yoshii .... production assistant (English version)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Rurôni Kenshin (Japan) (short title)
Rurôni Kenshin: Reminicense (USA) (second part title)
Rurôni Kenshin: Romantic Tales from the Meiji Era (USA) (first part title)
Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (USA) (director's cut)
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (International: English title) (director's cut)
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Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
USA:120 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
English | Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital
Certification:
Singapore:M18 | USA:Not Rated | UK:15 | Australia:MA | South Korea:18 (cable rating) | Spain:13
Company:
SPE Visual Works more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The story of Rurouni Kenshin is a highly fictionalized tale very loosely based on real historical figures. The region 1 DVDs published by ADV include some brief notes that connect the anime characters to their historical counterparts. more
Quotes:
Kenshin: It's better that I do not know why they should die. Doing so would disrupt my concentration. more
Movie Connections:
References Schindler's List (1993) more

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User Comments

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Blue Velvet spiced into Shogun Assassin, 4 February 2006
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Author: (quocanh80@hotmail.com) from Saigon, Vietnam

The movie Kenshin deserves it's place among the best of anime, it stands as a reminder of what animation is capable of. It is rare to find a Samurai/Shogun animation movie that contains such attention to detail. This is apparent in the way the movie takes it's time to build it's characters and develop their respective relationships, in fact very little time is devoted to the actual fights scenes with the numerous battles and duels being over in a blink of an eye. What the movie actually focuses on is the doomed love story that develops between Kenshin and Toroe and the numerous symbols within nature that depict the character's fates.

Kenshin is a true work of art that draws upon Japan's rich artistic history to create an epic tale of love and death. The movie incorporates distinctly Japanese arts within it's narrative, for example in this movie there is a strong emphasis on the depiction of the landscape, the changing of the seasons, the stoicism of the Japanese mentality. Through these artistic devices we see the tale unfold of an assassin who is torn between continuing his life of bloodshed or taking his chance to escape into a more quiet life away from the killings.

With all the emphasis on the artistic achievement of Kenshin it should also be mentioned that the movie also delivers on a purely entertaining level with blood splatter tinged into practically every scene, but what stands out even more is the spiritual aspect of the story that tells the audience -amongst other things- that what we do in life will eventually come to haunt us in our future.

A stunning poetic reflection of an often banal genre.

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