Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Synopsis

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Trailer

Open trailer on YouTube

Streaming availability

flatrate

Netflix Netflix Standard with Ads

Streaming data provided by JustWatch.

Cast

Takeru Satoh

Kenshin Himura

Emi Takei

Kaoru Kamiya

Koji Kikkawa

Udo Jine

Yu Aoi

Megumi Takani

Munetaka Aoki

Sanosuke Sagara

Go Ayano

Gein

Genki Sudo

Banjin Inui

Taketo Tanaka

Yahiko Myojin

Eiji Okuda

Aritomo Yamagata

Yosuke Eguchi

Hajime Saito

Teruyuki Kagawa

Kanryu Takeda

Kaoru Hirata

Tae Sekihara

Mei Nagano

Tsubame Sanjo

Yusuke Hirayama

Older Brother

Motoki Fukami

Younger Brother

Daisuke Honda

Kodama

—

Kotaro Okamoto

Kikuchi

Toshihiro Yashiba

Kubo's Husband

Atsuko Anami

Kubo's Wife

Motoki Ochiai

Mizushima

Crew

Art

• So Hashimoto Production Design

Camera

• Takuro Ishizaka Director of Photography
• Jitsu Toyoda "C" Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

• Kazuhiro Sawataishi Costume Design

Crew

• Kenji Sato Stunts
• Masaki Onishi Stunts
• Kenji Tanigaki Stunt Coordinator
• Takahito Ouchi Stunt Coordinator
• Akihiko Sai Stunts

Directing

• Keishi Otomo Director
• Kenji Tanigaki Action Director

Editing

• Tsuyoshi Imai Editor

Lighting

• Katsutoshi Hirano Gaffer

Production

• Masahiko Ibaraki Producer
• Tatsuro Hatanaka Producer
• William Ireton Executive Producer
• Shinzo Matsuhashi Producer
• Takeo Hisamatsu Producer
• Hiroaki Kitano Producer
• Hiroyoshi Koiwai Producer
• Osamu Kubota Producer
• Akira Egawa Co-Producer
• Shinsuke Higuchi Co-Producer

Sound

• Akihiko Okase Sound Effects
• ONE OK ROCK Theme Song Performance
• Naoki Sato Music
• Hiroaki Masuko Production Sound Mixer
• Masatoshi Katsumata Supervising Sound Editor
• Mikio Obata Sound Engineer

Writing

• Kiyomi Fujii Screenplay
• Keishi Otomo Screenplay
• Nobuhiro Watsuki Comic Book

Photos