Working within these limitations, Kyoto Inferno doesn't break any new ground, but doesn't drown in cliches either.
It's difficult to find something new to say in a samurai movie - they have been done to death. Making the audience aware of this, throws them out of the story.īut overall this is an entertaining movie. But isn't he at least a bit interested in watching Kenshin fight? This artificial nonchalance is obviously a dramatic device. Okay, he's confident that Kenshin will lose. More seriously, Shishio calmly walks away from a fight between his henchman and Kenshin.
You're not going to run around with one held up to your cheek in firing position, peering down the iron sights. A bolt-action rifle is big, heavy and clumsy. Director Keishi Ohtomo was probably influenced by seeing today's special forces storm buildings with their MP-5s. They handle their bolt-action rifles like they were submachine guns. Some gripes: the opening scene where the Kyoto policemen try to hunt Shishio is a bit ridiculous. He looks more serious in Kyoto Inferno, more believable. His aw-shucks goofy demeanor in the first movie did not fit Kenshin's retired killer character. Takeru Satô's portrayal of the pacifist Kenshin has improved. The supporting characters - both the strays he picks up, and the bad guys he fights - are nicely and quickly fleshed out and feel like real people. Kenshin's diversions along the way to Kyoto are interesting and don't feel like filler. Kyoto Inferno has a tighter focus on bad guy Makoto Shishio, fewer subplots that go nowhere. The first movie had a haphazard plot, trying to establish Kenshin Himura's origin story and showing how he settled down in Kaoru Kamiya's kendo dojo.
The first movie looked like a TV production. The fight choreography, sets and lighting look better, more cinematic. likely budgeted more money for the sequel - $30 million (I can't find numbers for the first movie's budget). The first movie grossed $100 million worldwide, so Warner Bros. Keishi Ohtomo directed both movies, but Kyoto Inferno has a stronger storyline, and probably a bigger budget too. Sequel Kyoto Inferno is superior to 2012's Rurouni Kenshin. He has to fight another one of Shishio's men - Cho (Ryosuke Miura) a punk with bleached blond hair - before heading to Kyoto to foil Shishio's plan to burn Kyoto to the ground. Kenshin must now get a replacement sword from the master swordmaker who made his original sword. He also fights with, and loses to, Shishio's boyish and creepily polite henchman Seta Sojiro (Ryunosuke Kamiki), who manages to break Kenshin's sword.
He goes alone but his lovable sidekick Sagara Sanosuke (Munetaka Aoki, playing a violent version of Seinfeld's Kramer) and pretty girlfriend Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei) follow not far behind.Īlong the way, he picks up strays in the form of girl thief Misao Makimachi (Tao Tsuchiya) and a recently-orphaned boy. Sickened by this, Kenshin reluctantly goes to Kyoto to find Shishio. Kenshin at first refuses but Shishio sends his men to Tokyo to kill too. He swears revenge and starts killing policemen in Kyoto.Ī desperate government reaches out to legendary retired swordsman Kenshin Himura in Tokyo. He miraculously survives with hideous burns. SF-RKK010(SS)(LSH)(S6) $29.98 RACS Price $6.Plot summary (story synopsis): Government killer Makoto Shishio (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is betrayed by the government and left to burn to death. Get ready for blades to flash and blood to flow as Nobuhiro Watsuki's acclaimed Rurouni Kenshin returns at long last to the world of animation in an epic masterpiece: Rurouni Kenshin - New Kyoto Arc! Which is a fortunate thing for Misao, as her onimitsu talents may be all that keeps her alive when a journey in search of the leader of the clan, Aoshi Shinomori, leads her instead into a face-to-face encounter with an even more dangerous man and a plot to overthrow the Meiji government! Quickly enmeshed in the affairs of the legendary assassin Hitokiri Batt?sai, now known as Kenshin Himura wielder of the reverse-blade sword, Misao finds herself pulled into the middle of a deadly intrigue against Makoto Shishio, who is orchestrating the conquest of all Japan, beginning with Kyoto! Suatu hari, Kaoru Kamiya, seorang pelatih dari Dojo Kamiya Kasshin-ryu sedang mengejar seseorang yang. Memiliki kemampuan berpedang tradisional 'Hiten Mitsurugiryu', dia dikenal dengan kecepatannya mengayunkan pedang dan masa lalunya sebagai pembunuh bayaran membuatnya ditakuti sebagai 'Hitokiri Battosai'. : Stocking Item - Usually Ships Within 24-48 Hours Unless BackorderedĪlthough she's only sixteen and looks even younger, Misao Makimachi is already a skilled and competent member of the Protagonis utama, Kenshin Himura adalah anggota Choshu Ishin Shishi pada awal era Meiji. Bilingual - Japanese w/ English Subtitles and