Upcoming live action movie Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning has released a series of new stills!
The stills feature Kenshin (Takeru Satoh), his wife Tomoe Yukishiro (Kasumi Arimura), Kogoro Katsura (Issey Takahashi), Soji Okita (Nijiro Murakami), and Hajime Saito (Yosuke Eguchi).
The Beginning is the fifth and final installment of the live action film series, acting as a prequel outlining Kenshin’s past and exploring how he got his iconic scar while working as an assassin under Katsura Kogoro. It will follow The Final, which adapts the Jinchu arc of the manga as the conclusion to the main story.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final opens at cinemas across Japan on April 23, 2021, with The Beginning following on June 4, 2021.
(C) Nobuhiro Watsuki / Shueisha (C) 2020 Rurouni Kenshin: The Final Production Committee
(C) Nobuhiro Watsuki / Shueisha (C) 2020 Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning Production Committee
Adapted with permission from Anime!Anime!