Title: Rurouni Kenshin
Story by: Nobuhiro Watsuki
Directed by: Keishi Ohtomo
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese with subtitles
Release Date: December 5, 2012 (Philippines)
Starring:
Takero Sato as Himura Kenshin
Emi Takei as Kaoru Kamiya
Yu Aoi as Megumi Takani
Munetaka Aoki as Sanosuke Sagara
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Rurouni Kenshin takes place during the early Meiji era in Japan,
telling the story of a wanderer named Himura Kenshin, formerly known as the assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai". After
participating in the Bakumatsu war, Kenshin wanders the countryside of
Japan offering protection and aid to those in need as atonement for the
murders he once committed as an assassin. When arriving in Tokyo in the
11th year of Meiji (1878), he meets a young woman named Kamiya
Kaoru, who is in the middle of a fight with a murderer - who claims
to be the Hitokiri Battōsai - tarnishing the name of the
swordsmanship school that she teaches. Kenshin decides to help her and
defeats the fake Battōsai. After discovering that Kenshin is the
real Battōsai, Kaoru offers him a place to stay at her dojo
noting that he is peace-loving and not cold-hearted, as his reputation
implies. Kenshin accepts and begins to establish lifelong relationships
with many people such as Sagara Sanosuke, a former Sekihō
Army member; Myōjin Yahiko, an orphan from a samurai family; and a doctor
named Takani Megumi. However, he also deals with his
fair share of enemies, new and old, including the former leader from
the Oniwabanshū, Shinomori Aoshi and his rival from the Bakumatsu Saitō Hajime.
