2014 · action · adventure · drama
Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno
Directed by Keishi Otomo2h 18m2014
Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.
Our read: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
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- redemptive
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