Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

(2012)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 942 votes

Genres: Adventure, Action, Fantasy, War, History

Year: 2012

Runtime: 134 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 大友啓史

Cast: Такэру Сато, 武井咲, 吉川晃司, Ю Аой, Мунэтака Аоки, 綾野剛, 須藤元気, Такэто Танака, 奥田瑛二, Ёсукэ Эгути

Plot

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without killing. Kenshin wanders through Japan with a reverse-edged sword during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.