Rurouni Kenshin live action movie to be released in 2012

by Adam, filed in Movies on Dec.16, 2011

Takeru Sato as Kenshin in the Live Action Rurouni Kenshin movies

There’s a Japanese live action Rurouni Kenshin film in the works. It’s set to be released on August 25th 2012. Rurouni Kenshin is a popular manga turned anime series about a samurai with a dark past who fights with a backwards sword and hangs around with women and children to be a nice non threatening guy. When Kenshin holds his sword backwards, you know he means business!

The trailer looks pretty good, and not totally crappy like other manga turned anime turned live action movies like Death Note which sucked more than most movies could ever dream of sucking. With a solid story as source material there’s no good reason for this movie to suck, but it still might, like Death Note, which sucked really bad. I didn’t see Shishio in the credits so that’s promising.

Emi Takei as Kaoru in Live Action Rurouni Kenshin movie

I can’t say I’ve seen these actors in anything, but Takeru Sato, who plays Kenshin, was in a Masked Rider series. I guess they couldn’t find any Japanese guys with orange hair…

Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke in Live Action Rurouni Kenshin movie

Check out the trailer and more on the official site. Don’t speak Japanese? Too bad!

Yu Aoi as Megumi in the Live Action Rurouni Kenshin movie

Leave a comment to let us know what you think of this trailer or to bitch at me because you like Death Note and have bad taste.

Tags: Anime, Japan, Manga, Rurouni Kenshin

Kennysmith555

Death Note sucked?
Are you kidding me.
I thought Death Note was pretty good.
I liked both movie. (Including L changes the world)
They did a great job making mange into live action.
Probably the best live action movie based on manga I have seen. (Certainly better than Dragonball Evolution, Fist of the North Star, and The Last Airbender (even though it is not manga).
Anyway I think Rurouni Kensin is going to be just as good.

Adam

Well I’m not sure comparing the north american stuff to the Japanese stuff is fair. �I like the Cutie Honey movie, but that franchise lends itself to a more over the top type movie. �Death Note was a bit silly for my taste, we’ll see how this one goes.

Kennysmith555

P.S. I don’t have bad taste in movie.
Just my opinion.

Adam

Sure, I’m just trollin’.
Adam

Sure, I’m just trollin’.

Sara Cooper

ignorance shows.�
Your research is faulty� the character is not, and never was, a samurai. The character was a peasant child, sold off for food, and then became the sole survivor of the group of chattel when the merchant and other slaves were killed by bandits.

The Himura character was raised by a samurai, but never formally adopted. Additionally, said samurai was Master of the sword technique used by the battousai (meaning the one who draws his sword in one powerful, fluid motion). To master the technique required killing the previous master according to manga storyline.

So, your lack of research leads me to wonder if your reviews, in this case speculation, are faulty or biased, or non-existant.�

And truthfully, not all manga or anim� are well-done when they are re-worked as live-action. However, this one appears to have the benefit of thoughtful scripting and production. It remains to be seen how true to the mangaka’s work this film will be.

Adam

Are you aware that this show was released domestically as “Samurai X”, which kind of insinuates he’s a Samurai? �You may have a point about him technically not being a Samurai, but you’ve got a long line of much more official sources to bitch at about this before you bring it to me.

Calling me out for being ignorant for calling a spade a spade is kind of unreasonable.

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