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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Sequels Cast Okina, Sawagejō
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The official website for the two live-action films announced more cast on Saturday:
68-year-old Tekkonkinkreet, The Twilight Samurai, 47 Ronin remake) as Nenji Kashiwazaki/Okina
47-year-old Kazufumi Miyazawa (The Boom music band) as Toshimichi Ōkubo
39-year-old Yukiyoshi Ozawa (Umi no Hotaru) as Hirobumi Itō
12-year-old Ninja Kids!!! Summer Mission Impossible) as Yahiko Myōjin
25-year-old model Maryjun Takahashi as Yumi Komagata
26-year-old Kamen Rider OOO) as Chō Sawagejō
film.
The previously include:
- Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura
- Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
- Yūsuke Iseya as Aoshi Shinomori
- Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
- Yū Aoi as Megumi Takani
- Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Sōjirō Seta
- Yōsuke Eguchi as Hajime Saitō
- Shishio
The two new films, which will cover the Kyoto arc from Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The End of a Legend). The films are slated to open next summer.
In addition to the two new films. played in San Francisco on August 1.
Watsuki's manga ran from 1994 to 1999 in month.
An anime series aired in Japan from 1996 to 1998 and spawned several anime film and video projects. released the two more recent video anime series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD, which also covered the Kyoto arc.
Source: Comic Natalie
Update: Grammar fixed. Thanks, Karasuhebi
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