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The art direction and costume design are perfectly detailed, while Takuro Ishizaka's lush cinematography is right on target. It is clear that Keishi Otomo has poured his heart to make this live-action adaptation as stunning as possible. RUROUNI KENSHIN is particularly noted for its impeccable technical values here. Most of the time you'll see her more of a damsel-in-distress than a so-called tough vixen she meant to be. Her character is supposed to be a tomboy-ish type, but yet she is too pretty to pull off the part convincingly. The only (slight) disappointment is Emi Takei as Kaoru. The rest of the supporting cast are equally captivating - ranging from Yu Aoi, Koji Kikkawa and even Taketo Tanaka. As the street brawler Sagara Sanosuke, Munetaka Aoki carries that familiar rough-and-tumble attitude effectively, while Teruyuki Kagawa is gleefully over-the-top as the villainous Kanryu Takeda. Not only that, fans will also be delighted with Sato's signature delivery, 'oro?' as well.

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Takeru Sato is excellent as the titular character and he certainly looks the part fans have to use to see him in the anime series - his trademark red-haired and long ponytail, curvaceous lips, wide eyes, his outfit and even the way he runs, jumps and draws his sword. To save Megumi, Kenshin and his newfound friend, Sagara Sanosuke (Munetaka Aoki), who was a street brawler, make their way to Takeda's mansion and settle the matter once and for all. However, she fails to do so and ends up being a hostage.

She knows that this is the work of Takeda, and prompts her to return to his mansion so she can kills him. Things get worse when a number of innocent people around the countryside are suffering from rat poison in the community wells, but luckily Megumi, who used to be a healer, manages to cure them with sufficient medication. Megumi (Yu Aoi), who is being forced to make opium, manages to escape from his mansion and subsequently seeks shelter at Kaoru's dojo. Takeda is also a notorious criminal who runs a huge opium operation. Meanwhile, Jin-e is actually a hired ex-samurai who works for a wealthy businessman named Kanryu Takeda (Teruyuki Kagawa).

Apart from them, Kaoru also has an orphaned boy named Myojin Yahiko (Taketo Tanaka) who happened to be her only student. After Kenshin manages to save her from getting killed by a fake Battosai named Jin-e (Koji Kikkawa) and also helps her to stop a group of thugs trying to take over her dojo, he moves in with her. He arrives in a countryside of Japan and subsequently meets Kamiya Kaoru (Emi Takei), the owner of a fencing school used to run by her late father. He vows himself not to kill people anymore and even carries a reverse-edged sword. Ten years later, Battosai becomes a wanderer and now calls himself as Himura Kenshin. He walks away from the battlefield as the Empire is finally declared victory and thus a new era has born. The movie opens briefly on a gritty battlefield in 1869 during the battle of Toba-Fushima, where a young samurai named Hitokiri Battosai (Takeru Sato) almost single-handedly defeated a score of enemies. But thankfully, fans of the anime/manga series will be (mostly) satisfied the way this first live-action adaptation of RUROUNI KENSHIN has turned out admirably. At first, I was doubtful whether a live-action adaptation from such a popular manga can live up to its high expectation since most like-minded movie like this always ends up as a rip-off. Now, over ten years later, writer-director Keishi Otomo finally brings RUROUNI KENSHIN to life. When I was a teenager, I used to love watching the highly-popular anime series called Samurai X (an international title otherwise known as Rurouni Kenshin in its native Japan) back in the late 1990s.