Check out the new theatrical trailer for the third
installment in the adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki popular manga
series, Rurouni Kenshin.
Titled Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends and set to set to open
in Japan on September 13th, this latest entry has some big shoes to fill as it opens
just a few months after the previous installment, which was the highest grossing
picture in Japan this year, grossing $8 million at the box office.
Like Kyoto
Inferno, Rurôni Kenshin: The Legend End will look to adapt the "Kyoto
Arc" of the original manga from Nobuhiro Watsuki. Keishi Ōtomo returns to
direct both feature films for Studio Swan. Takeru Satoh plays Kenshin Himura,
Emi Takei returns as Kaoru Kamiya, Yusuke Iseya plays Aoshi Shinomori, Munetaka
Aoki plays Sanosuke Sagara, Yuu Aoi co-stars as Megumi Takani, Ryunosuke Kamiki
plays Sōjirō Seta, Yosuke Eguchi plays Hajime Saitō, Tatsuya Fujiwara plays
Makoto Shishio, the venerable min Tanaka plays Nenji Kashiwazaki/Okina,
Kazufumi Miyazawa plays Toshimichi Ōkubo, Yukiyoshi Ozawa plays Hirobumi Itō,
Kaito Ōyagi plays Yahiko Myōjin, Maryjun Takahashi plays Yumi Komagata and
Ryosuke Miura plays Chō Sawagejō. Watsuki's original manga began in 1994 and
recently concluded its non-concurrent run this past June in Jump Square.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The Great Kyoto Fire) will
be released in Japan theaters this autumn, on August 1st. The third film,
Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The End of a Legend)
will be released just a month later, on September 13th.
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