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RUROUNI KENSHIN: THE FINAL (2021) dir. by Keishi Ōtomo

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Some of the casts of Rurouni Kenshin reunites in 2025.

by emitakei_official & taotsuchiya_official

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2023.07.13

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Kenshin, let’s go home.

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021)

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For Love's Sake, Takashi Miike, 2012.

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[CONTAIN SPOILERS]

Oro?

He's my childhood manga hero and I grew up reading the manga. Watching my favourite Takeru reliving Kenshin is like the strawberry and cream on top of a really delicious vanilla cake!

The Final's storyline was a bit different from the manga. They didn't insert the part where Enishi faked Kaoru's death that it totally threw Kenshin to the bottom of his life. Her (faked) death hurts him so much that he couldn't even swing his sakabato anymore. Then again, for Kaoru's sake, he's up and faces his fate again.

But it doesn't mean I didn't like the movie. I mean, they put Himura Kenshin and Seta Sojiro fighting together side-by-side, so who am I to complain?! I really love the part Kenshin and Kaoru left Tomoe's grave while holding hands, exactly the way it was in the manga. The cinematography, fighting scenes, all those have been really awesome since the first instalment.

I hope there's an epilogue in the upcoming The Beginning, the one where Kenshin and Kaoru gotten married, have a son, and Kenshin cut his hair short. Then he hands down his sakabato to Yahiko. I personally think that part is so iconic and significant, showing the new era has really, really begun.

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So about the movie....SPOILERS AHEAD

Great acting in a couple of moments:

1. Kaoru talking with Megumi about how hard it must have been for Tomoe and how she felt so sad for her.

2. Kenshin apologizing to Enishi.

3. Enishi...just...Enishi.

4. Hand holding

5. Sano and Meg

The whole of the movie was action. Don't get me wrong, the action may have surpassed the rest of the movies.

But that's it.

And I think the problem lies in the fact that Jinchu is just VERY heavy, with a lot of nuanced moments between a lot of people. There were SO MANY missed opportunities between, for example, K&K(honestly you send her after him in the rain just for him to take it, say thank you with zero feeling...that's it, that was the scene), Kao&Enishi, K&E and even K&T...

Also they did Kaoru dirty with lack of action scenes (though I do get it cause the Japanese are hella careful with actresses that are mothers) AND they did Sano dirty too...

Also we honestly didn't need Soujiro...

All in all, it was a whole lotta action with a whole lot of attempts at feeling but falling incredibly short.

For bringing the characters to life, though, Otomo&co will have my eternal gratitude.