Like many action movies, the main premise of the movie is laid out in the first 20 minutes. Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto inferno presents a rather straight forward story between good (Kenshin) and evil (Shishio). But another danger lurks in the shadows, the former ninja leader in service of the Shogunate Shinomori Aoshi (Yusuke Iseya) is hunting Kenshin down, assured to kill him.
Kenshin quickly finds allies on his way to and in Kyoto he meets the young frisky female ninja Makimachi Misao (Tao Tsuchiya) Kashiwazaki Nenji (Min Tanaka), an elderly former Shogunate spy who’s now an innkeeper, and the always-smoking police official Saito Hajime (Yosuke Eguchi). Convinced to protect peace under the new government, but in spite of the protests of Kaoru and the doubts of Sanosuke, he leaves for Kyoto. Himura Kenshin hesitates, but when he sees the suffering caused by an attack by Shishio’s henchman Seta Sojiro (Ryunosuke Kamiki) and his small army some time later, he changes his mind. The home minister Okubo asks Kenshin, who’s resolved never to kill again, to go to the former capit al Kyoto and stop Shishio Makoto (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a former Ishin Shishi Hitokiri like Kenshin, who is plotting – in part as a revenge for the pro Meiji-government forces who tried to assassinate him – with his gathered warriors and the Juppongatana (the Ten Swords) against the Meiji government. Not long after Himura Kenshin (Takeru Satô), the smooth-faced, softly spoken master swordsman, has settled into his new life with the owner and acting instructor of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryū kenjutsu dojo Tokyo, Kamiya Kaoru (Emi Takei) and their friends Sanosuke Sagara (Munetaka Aoki), Yahiko Myojin (Munetaka Aoki) and Megumi Takani (Yu Aoi), he’s approached by Meiji government officials and is ushered, together with very vocal Sanosuke, who has some anti-meiji government sentiment, into the presence of the home minister Toshimichi Okubo (Kazufumi Miyazawa). “The Kenshin-tension will keep you on the edge of your seat”.
0 kommentar(er)
