Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

About Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.

Keishi Otomo's Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning is a 2021 romance film. The film is filed under redemption, samurai, civil war, and jidaigeki.

Takeru Satoh appears as Kenshin Himura, Kasumi Arimura as Tomoe Yukishiro, Issey Takahashi as Kogoro Katsura, and Nijiro Murakami as Soji Okita. At 138 minutes long, it arrived in June 2021.

The screenplay is by Keishi Otomo. Produced by Warner Bros. Japan. The film began as a manga. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins, and 13 Assassins make useful companions to Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning, all filed under bakumatsu, ishin shishi, and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 566 votes and it carries a R rating.