AARGGH! GIVES US EARTHLY JUSTICE. GIVES US THE FULL JINCHUU ARC ( not just Tsuiokuhen ) OR NONE AT ALL!
These interviews are from ‘Awesome!’ magazine, vol.14, 2014.
The first one is Dir Otomo’s comment about ‘Tsuioku-hen’.
Aren’t you planning to film another ‘Rurouni Kenshin’? Takeru-san says he is interested in the story that depicts Kenshin’s past because you haven’t done it yet.
Dir Otomo: Sounds good. It’s ‘Tsuioku-hen’, right? That would be great, I think. (lol) But if we should film ‘Tsuioku-hen’, it would be quite tough. It will make a deep drama, I suppose. It’s a story about Tomoe (a key person in the original ‘Tsuioku-hen’). We should go down to the deepest, you know.
The second one is Takeru’s.
*snip* I might sound hasty if I tell you before ‘The Legend Ends’ (to be released on Sep. 13) is released, but I’m looking forward to the sequel. The original story continued after Shishio died, right? (lol)
Takeru: In my mind, as for an action entertainment, I feel I’ve done quite enough. But the only thing I’ve left undone as an actor who played Kenshin and as a fan of the original comic of ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ is his past, you know. For example, why did he become an assassin? The live action films haven’t described the days when he worked as an assassin.
It is still veiled in mystery as you said.
Takeru: We explained the meaning of the first one of the crossed scars, but not yet about how the other one had been made in the trilogy. So if there is one thing still undone, it would be to describe the episode about why he got the other scar. I’d like to do that. That is the only regrettable thing for me.
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Translation by: @stephany-310