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Streaming Sleepers: All Five RUROUNI KENSHIN Films Are Now Streaming On Netflix

Today is July 4. It is also the start of Independence Day weekend in the U.S., and, it is also high time I posted a Streaming Sleepers piece which I haven’t done in a while, and for this, we turn to Netflix in its recent release of the Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno, and Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends. The streamer was already home to the first installment, 2012’s Rurouni Kenshin which stars Takeru Satoh in the lead. Subscribers also got to check out 2021’s Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, and Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, and now the streamer is home to all five movies. Set against the backdrop of 1870s Japan, Satoh heads franchise as Himura Kenshin, a wandering samurai whose fearsome reputation re-surfaces amid a spate of killings. Banding together with newfound friends and allies, and armed with a pacifist sense that emboldens his use of a reverse blade, our […]

Warner Bros. Japan Announces Two New RUROUNI KENSHIN Sequels For 2020 Release

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Official announcements now pouring in from Japanese media and translatory reports are coming in with word of actor Takeru Satoh’s return to the fray in new Ruroini Kenshin sequels now slated for release next year. Actor Takeru Satoh (Inuyashiki, Ajin: Demi Human) will reprise his role for the two new films covering “Mystery of the Cross-Shaped Scar” first, and the second, “Most Terrifying Enemy – Enishi”. Actress Emi Takei will reclaim her role as Kaoru with further casting news still pending as the films edge toward a 2020 release according to the first look photo of Satoh going viral this week. The original films, released from 2012 through 2014 based on Nobuhiro Watsuki’s celebrated manga hit about a wandering ronin who poetically dispenses justice with a neutral sword, were directed by Keishi Otomo for Warner Bros. Japan. The films collectively grossed more that $160 million internationally with Funimation eventually picking […]