2012 · adventure · action · fantasy
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Directed by Keishi Otomo2h 14m2012
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
Our read: Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive adventure · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme adventure / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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