Rurôni Kenshin: Seisô hen (2001) (V)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Writers:

Nobuhiro Watsuki (comics)
Reiko Yoshida (writer)

Release Date:

19 December 2001 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Action | Romance

Plot:

Kenshin and Kaoru are married. Kenshin leaves Kaoru with their son, Kenji, to lead a revolution in China...

Plot Keywords:

Samurai Warrior | Zen | Samurai | Sequel | Dark Hero

Cast

Mayo Suzukaze	...	Kenshin Himura
Miki Fujitani	...	Kaoru Kamiya
Mîna Tominaga	...	Yahiko Myôjin
Yûji Ueda	...	Sanosuke Sagara
Mika Doi	...	Megumi Takani
Yuri Shiratori	...	Tsubame Sanjô
Nozomu Sasaki	...	Enishi Yukishiro
Shûichi Ikeda	...	Seijûrô Hiko
Yuki Kaida	...	Kenji Himura
Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Hajime Saitô
Akio Ôtsuka	...	Jine Udô
Harî Kaneko	...	Aritomo Yamagata
Mitsuru Miyamoto	...	Ujiki
Sukekiyo Kameyama	...	Police Captain Muraki
Junichi Miura	...	Newspaper Seller
Takahiro Hirano	...	Noodle Shop Master
Mayumi Akado	...	Mother of Samurai
Reiko Fujita	...	Chizuru
Naomi Matamura
Mika Ishibashi
Mariko Nagahama
Hiroshi Shimozaki
Hidenori Konda
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Meg Bauman	...	Tsubame Sanjo (voice: English version)
Martin Blacker	...	Jin'e Udou (voice: English version)
James Brownlee	...	Seijuro Hiko (voice: English version) (as J. Hudson Brownlee)
Charles Campbell	...	Ujiki Boss, Newspaper Seller (voice: English version)
Elena Carrillo	...	Chizuru (voice: English version)
Katherine Catmull	...	Kaoru Kamiya (voice: English version)
Gray Haddock	...	Sanosuke Sagara (voice: English version) (as Gray G. Haddock)
Sammy Harte	...	Additional Characters
Bill Harwell	...	Aritomo Yamagata (voice: English version)
Joey Hood	...	Kenji Himura (voice: English version)
Rebecca Robinson	...	Megumi Takani (voice: English version)
Derek Wade	...	Yahiko Myojin (voice: English version)
J. Shanon Weaver	...	Kenshin Himura (voice: English version) (as J. Shannon Weaver)
Bill Wise	...	Enishi Yukishiro (voice: English version)

Directed by
Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Nobuhiro Watsuki		comics
Reiko Yoshida		writer

Original Music by
Taku Iwasaki

Production Companies

• Fuji Television Network
• Studio DEEN

Distributors

• SME Visual Works

Also Known As:

Rurôni Kenshin: Time (USA) (informal literal English title)
Samurai X: Reflection (USA)

Runtime:

83 min | Japan:90 min (director's cut)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:12

Company:

Fuji Television Network

Trivia:

Most of the flashback scenes that take place are actually scenes originally depicted in "Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996), redrawn and re-acted to fit the more serious tone of the OAV.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan" (1996)

The OVA that ends it all...

Kenshin lasted a long time: OVAs, Movies and more then three years of television - but all good things must come to an end.

Will Kaoru get Kenshin? What will happen to Yahiko and Sanouske?

This 2-part Kenshin OVA answers those questions and ends the series in a worthy way. It is not as good as some of the other OVA's and TV episodes, but not bad at all.

You could see it as a summary of the TV series plus a final episode.

Fans will definitely not want to miss this, if only to close the magnificent book of Kenshin.

Rating: 8/10