Saturday, April 18, 2020
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
Synopsis
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the
former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without
killing. Kenshin wanders through Japan with a reverse-edged sword during
the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps
the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium
drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of
opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist
Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school.
Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving
messages attached to their bodies. When Kanryuu poisons the population
to get the school, Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join
forces to attack their common enemy.
