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Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Sequels' Subtitled Trailer Previews ONE OK ROCK's Song
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The official channel for this summer's performed the first live-action Rurouni Kenshin film's theme song.
The trailer is also available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and French.
ONE OK ROCK created the dramatic song for these sequels. Vocalist Taka was very thrilled for the opportunity to contribute again after the first one. The trailer teases the climactic scene, which set on a warship. It took five months to build the 120-meter (400-foot) ship on the set.
Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen (Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends) on September 13.
Publicity producer Tokunaga Kimura explained the tagline ("Farewell, Kenshin.") in the trailer and ont the poster above: "It signifies the end of the Kyoto arc, where Kenshin in his desperate state may not be able to honor his oath not to kill, thanks to the appearance of the most insane enemy — and the parting of loved ones."
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 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 Shishio.
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: animeanime.jp
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