Unfortunately, his peaceful life is disrupted again when he’s called on by the Meiji government to handle a new threat to the country in the form of the deranged Makoto Shishio (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who wants to return Japan to a state of feudal chaos.
The second film picks up shortly after the first and sees former assassin-turned-wanderer Himura Kenshin (Takeru Sato) trying to build a new existence with dojo owner Kamiya Kaoru (Emi Takei) after defeating the previous film’s big bad.
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Add in a good dose of historical fact and what you have is a buffet of the best things about Japan, past and present.Īnyone who has even the slightest inclination for manga will know that the Rurouni Kenshin films are based on Nobuhiro Watsuki’s manga series of the same name, though some will find its anglicised title Samurai X more familiar. Kyoto Inferno is literally the best of both worlds: the stylised action and rousing storyline of a manga, and the star power and production values of a blockbuster movie.
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The first Rurouni Kenshin movie went some way towards rectifying that, but it’s only now, with the second installment Kyoto Inferno, that international audiences get to see what a synergy between various Japanese cultural elements looks like.
For too long, if you ask this reviewer, Japanese live-action film and television has failed to capitalise on the immense popularity of the nation’s other major cultural export: manga ( Boys over Flowers, anybody?).
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