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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Sequels' Photos Preview Aoshi vs. Okina Battle
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The press visited the sets for this year's two live-action Min Tanaka).
The production built Aoi-ya, Okina's two-story restaurant and inn from Toei's Uzumasa lot in Kyoto. The crew recreated Aoi-ya in exacting detail down to the trees in the garden. In this set, Iseya and Tanaka realize the Aoshi vs. Okina battle, with a little help from wires.
Iseya, who played the rival Rikiishi Tōru in the boxing manga film Keishi Ōtomo said he looked forward to filming this battle between the "history's strongest 68-year-old, Min-san, and Iseya-san who is 40 years old — give or take a few years," early on.
Comic Natalie posted more photographs from the shooting of the scene.
The two new films will cover the Kyoto arc from Nobuhiro Watsuki's original historical action manga. ended on December 27 after six months of filming.
The sequels will feature the return of the following cast :
- 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
Additional include:
as Misao Makimachi
Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Sōjirō Seta
Yūsuke Iseya as Aoshi Shinomori
68-year-old Min Tanaka (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
The cast of the Juppongatana (Ten Swords), a group of elite swordsmen led by Tatsuya Fujiwara), include:
- Ryōsuke Miura as Chō Sawagejō
- Kenichi Takitō as Hōji Sadojima
- Tomomi Maruyama as Anji Yūkyūzan
- Matsu Murata as Usui Uonuma
- Hiroko Yashiki as Kamatari Honjō
- Yūya Hara as Henya Kariwa
- Takao Yamada as Iwanbō
- Kentarō Shimazu as Saizuchi
- Kōta Yamaguchi as Fuji
along with character costume designer Kazuhiro Sawataishi.
The first live-action Rurouni Kenshin premiere in Los Angeles in December 2012.
Watsuki's manga ran from 1994 to 1999 in about enemy characters.
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
Images © Nobuhiro Watsuki/Shueisha © 2014 Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen/Densetsu no Saigo-hen Production Committee
