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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Sequels' 1st Teaser Posted
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The official channel for the live-action Shishio.
The trailer notes that the popular original manga has 57 million copies in circulation. After playing in 64 countries and 31 international film festivals, the live-action film's cast and staff return — with two more films. The tagline for the films reads, "Can you see the future? Could you prepare yourself?"
The films star:
- Takeru Satoh as Kenshin Himura
- Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
- Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
- Yū Aoi as Megumi Takani
- Yōsuke Eguchi as Hajime Saitō
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Makoto Shishio
Additional include:
as Misao Makimachi
Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Sōjirō Seta
Yūsuke Iseya as Aoshi Shinomori
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 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.
The first live-action Rurouni Kenshin played in San Francisco on August 1.
Watsuki's manga ran from 1994 to 1999 in year.
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.
