margarettelora The casting, the acting, the fight scenes are incredible. By far the best fight scenes I have seen in my existence. Apart from that there is a moral lesson to learn

Otaku_Critic The first Rurouni Kenshin movie was great. So is the sequel and its third movie. Again, the action sequences were great. Not only that, we even have a new and awesome villain named Shishio. Shishio unlike Jine Udo (villain from the last movie) had a more developed origin story and a more understandable character. Yet again did they made a good job of making a live action of this one. There are things that bothered me though, especially the title. As you can see, the title is Kyoto Inferno which will make you expect the city of Kyoto is gonna burn down to ash. But the twist is, Shishio's real plan is to burn Tokyo and stating that Tokyo is his real target making the title Kyoto Inferno kinda useless. But anyway it's still awesome. It makes me want to see Attack On Titan which had the same creators as this movie.In conclusion, Rurouni Kenshin Kyoto Inferno was very good! Awesome and satisfying.

Fabio Akita Asian studios have been trying to adapt manga/anime to live-action for decades. They all failed. Finally, we can call all this pre-Rurouni Kenshin. The first movie had some flaws, some unbalance, but it ultimately delivered. Now, Kyoto Inferno is a great 2nd part leading the way to The Legend Ends.The Shishio Makoto story-arc is super long in the manga. All the Juppongatana mini-story arcs were left behind because of that. This makes it possible to condense it to 2 movies.So, do not expect deeper character development. The movie decided to focus on the very specific attempt to bring down the government and undo the Meiji Ishin (by the way, do read about it at Wikipedia, go look for the terms "Bakumatsu", "Meiji Restoration" and you will understand better the background about Sekigahara, Toba-Fushimi, and you will feel less lost in case you don't know Japanese History).If you watched the anime or read the mangas (which I highly recommend), you will easily feel in the gaps with what you already know. The movie stitches together several memorable scenes from the source material.Some parts had to be adapted, of course, and I think they did a good job, specially on how they fit the Oniwabanshu. Not sure how the Aoshi story-arc will fit in the next movie.This movie had to remove several stuff from the source material in order not to look silly in a live-action, such as the special moves, screaming attacks ("Ryuutsuisen!"). But I'm most interested in how they will fit Kenshin's mentor of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu on the next movie (in the manga he will teach him the ultimate moves, Kuzuryuusen and Amakakeru Ryuu no Hirameki). He does show up very quickly so it's going to interesting how this unfolds.The relationship of Kenshin and Kaoru, of course, had to be diluted to the bare minimum to give Kenshin the motivation to go forward (it was already diluted in the source material).All in all, the filmography is superb, the casting is spot on, the story adaptation was very competent to compress a very complex source material.If you're already a fan of the series, you will not be disappointed. If you're new to the series, this could motivate you to go read the original.

y-melon0326 Rurouni Kenshin is composed of three films. The first film is complete in itself and others consist one story. The final film has shown since 13 September but I have not watched it yet. I'm very looking forward to it. This film is based on a manga which is popular but I have never read because I don't like historical stories. However, once that I watched the first one on TV, I have been captivated by it. First of all, casts are really good. They are very famous in Japan especially the main actor, Takeru Sato, is popular with young people because he is good at acting. In addition, I love Tatsuya Fujiwara because he is really cool. Unfortunately, his face is mostly covered with a bandage so I'm shocked.Second, I don't feel an old-fashioned atmosphere so much. I think this is because of the young actors and actresses and action scenes. My image of period films is that many people fight and a screen is overcrowded. However, this scene is fewer and one to one fight is focused which is like a hero animation.Finally, I think the structure is not good. The first one is OK but others are too long to watch. When I watched this second one, I was getting tired of it in the middle and I could sometimes expect what happen next so I hope the final film is good structure and good climax.