Latest news about live action Rurouni Kenshin 2012 and sequel

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Rurouni Kenshin premieres in United States

The movie Rurouni Kenshin will finally premiere in United States as an opening selection for the 2012 Los Angeles Eiga Fest on from December 14 to December 16 and it will be showing with English subtitles, rather than voice overs… Why am I not living in Los Angeles?!

For those that are wondering, LA Eiga Fest is a festival hosted by the Japan Film Society in conjunction with American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, both based in Los Angeles, California. Eiga means Film in Japanese, so the festival pretty much means Film Fest.

If you don’t live in Japan or United States, be sure to check out whether your country is going to premiere, because there are several countries around the world that plan to premiere Rurouni Kenshin!

Japanese Rurouni Kenshin Blu-Ray & DVD Release date

The Blu-Ray and DVD release of the Rurouni Kenshin movie is going to be released in Japan on December 26, 2012 in the form of two editions. None in United States yet… Sorry! However, if you want to buy… You could head over to Amazon or ASmart and preorder right now.

Standard:

Blu-ray: JPY3990 (US$50)

DVD: JPY2980 (US$37)

Limited Edition:

Comes in a special box, with special digipack, a soundtrack, and a Rurouni Kenshin notebook. Other content also include cast and staff commentary, TV spots, behind-the-scenes, and all the trailers included, plus One OK Rock’s MV of “The Beginning”. – source

Blu-Ray: JPY6930 (US$86)

DVD: JPY5985 (US$75)

Sequel Rurouni Kenshin movie announced

No, you didn’t misread! Rurouni Kenshin sequel is in the plans! According to this article in the Spanish website DeCulture, during the XVIII Salón del Manga de Barcelona (a convention of some kind), the studio Mediatres Estudio surprised everyone by announcing the existence of a sequel for the live action movie of Rurouni Kenshin, which will be renamed as The Samurai Warrior (Guerrero Samurái). Why the rename? I have no friggin idea, the Spanish have been referring to the movie as El Guerrero Samurái since before the sequel has been released… I guess that because they will be producing the sequel, it would be called as such… I don’t like it! But whatever, no big deal.

Anyway, I will translate the brief article after the first paragraph for you so you can read for yourself:

Spanish Article Translation:

According to Mediatres, they are already in Japan and working on the project and it will be faithful to the manga. Unfortunately, they did not offer anymore details, but it’s a great surprise for every fan out there that loved the movie and, of course, the mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki’s mangas.

The first movie, baptized by Spain as The Samurai Warrior, will be in our movie theatres between January and February of 2013. It is expected that they will be shown in very specific theatres, and not everywhere in the nation.

The DVD and Blu-ray domestic edition will be available in April 2013, at same time as 31 Comics International Conventionof Barcelona. Also it will be available as a streaming movie in the website Filmin.

I have to wonder, though… Why did they say they will stay faithful to the manga, yet want to change the name of the story from Rurouni Kenshin to The Samurai Warrior? I don’t get it.

tags: Rurouni Kenshin

Scanlated image of Himura Kenshin during the war, known as Hitokiri Battosai.

Live Action Rurouni Kenshin 2012 in English is coming

Sanosuke’s wife

I love you all for making Rurouni Kenshin a reality…may deepest grattitude…and hopefully the sequel will come soon… you can expect me and my friend’s support for the movie and upcoming installations :)
http://www.facebook.com/nelson.pereira.9803 Nelson Pereira

I read the spanish article and it said that the first movie was named “el guerrero samurai” in Spain, it’s the official title over there. It’s not the title for the sequel or anything. Glad there’s going to be a sequel, though. The first one was great, I hope they pick up Shishio’s arc this time.

http://www.facebook.com/muhammadizhan.izhar Muhammad Izhan Izhar

yeah i want shishio in it for the sequel. btw did u notice any aoshi in the first movie? too bad he didnt make his first debut in it :(
hope he’ll make it in this coming sequel!

jen

i want the enishi and kenshin duel….kenshin’s brother inlaw
http://twitter.com/edcapati Ednardo Capati

I hope a Spanish touch won’t ruin the greatness of this Movie.
yang inggrid

@disqus_M9iiSoylQS:disqus Enishi is dead, he’s the one who gava Kenshin the first scar, the second will be from his younger sister who will be Kenshin’s first wife. Kaouru will be the second.

Guest

Not really, Enishi is Kenshin’s first wife’s (Tomoe) younger brother, who saw heraccidental death. Kyosato (Tomoe’s groom) gave th

guest

you all with those stupid arguments,, just ask to the comic book writer.. he is the one who know everyhing he created..

Norlen

Not really, Enishi is Tomoe’s (Kenshin’s first wife) younger brother, who saw her accidental death. Kyosato (Tomoe’s groom) gave the first scar to Kenshin before Kenshin killed him. And Enishi is not dead, he wanted revenge later, when Kenshin was a ruroni yet.
gracietrinh

Dude, wrong wrong. Kenshin got the first scar from Tomoe’s fiance & his second scar came from Tomoe herself. Derp, go back to the manga.

nick

i would prefer seijyuro hiko, aoshi shinomori, n makoto shihio in the coming sequel.. :).. enishi..? just set aside that poor lil villain… i cant wait to see kenshin’s 2 best moves, the kuzuryusen and amakakeru ryu no hirameki…

Barchiel

It’s too soon for Shishio.

For the sequel, Aoshi and the Oni Wa Ban should be the villain.

For part three, Shishio and the Juupongattana.

Part four, Enishi.

http://www.facebook.com/zachary.lancaster.18 Zachary Lancaster

But in this movie they had the oni wa ban but with no aoshi. And the guy who was supposedly supposed to be hannya was like a hannya aoshi combination. with his cool mask, and wielding the short sword.

Barchiel

Excellent point, but were they really the Oni Wa Ban? They could say that they were part of the group, that way the rest of them can try to get revenge on a sequel. Aoshi is too major a character to be skipped over. Not to mention, they are pretty literal with attempting to be true to the anime’s characters.

jessica

they should do the OVA trust and betrayal with the same characters and story as well…
http://twitter.com/mishoochan ELFs POWER.mishmish

loool they better keep the actors as they r “Takiro satoh” was super great .. and also ..r they going to keep the same AWESOME show of the fights in the movie “i wish that so much” and wish that shishio story is to be featured XD omg if thats true i will die of excitment loool ..