

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning 2021
Directed by Keishi Otomo
- Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
- 138 min
- R
This is how it ends, this is where it began.
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Takeru SatohKenshin Himura
- Kasumi ArimuraTomoe Yukishiro
- Issey TakahashiKogoro Katsura
- Nijiro MurakamiSoji Okita
- Masanobu AndoShinsaku Takasugi
- Kazuki KitamuraTatsumi
- Yosuke EguchiHajime Saito
- Towa ArakiEnishi Yukishiro
- Shima OnishiIizuka
- Soko WadaToshizo Hijikata
Crew
- Keishi OtomoDirector
- Keishi OtomoScreenplay
- Takuro IshizakaDirector of Photography
- Naoki SatoOriginal Music Composer
- Tsuyoshi ImaiEditor
- Satoshi FukushimaProducer
- Hiroyoshi KoiwaiProducer
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