Rurouni Kenshin Live Action Movie “in Production”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 9, 2010 02:45 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Live Action, Movies, Rurouni Kenshin, Samurai, Shonen Jump
Japanese actor Takeru Satoh, known best for a series of roles in drama, has been identified as the most likely actor to play the role of Himura Kenshin in a rumoured movie adaptation of hit Shonen Jump bakumatsu era samurai manga Rurouni Kenshin.
One unnamed source connected with the film reports that the Rurouni Kenshin film is going ahead, and that Satoh has the role.
Satoh has “just the right look, and there aren’t many actors with the right image for Kenshin” he says. Satoh himself has already trained in cinematic swordplay for an earlier samurai role.
Another source supposedly validates this:
“Back when it had just ended serialisation there was talk of a movie adaptation, but back then manga being adapted to film wasn’t something you really saw much, unlike now.
Add to this the fact that CG technology wasn’t very good… CG tech has come a long way since then. As a result, the movie was suddenly decided upon recently.”
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*starts to sing Climax Jump* I wouldn't be surprised if the actor of Kenshin suddenly Break Dances and finishes who ever the villain of the movie is with a Rider Kick! XD
isn't it isn't it Splended
so hope they work in a joke were he tries on a Momoto mask
最高です！。
Hope this doesn't end up like a fking movie Avatar: The last Airbender...
Pair Sato Takeru with his real life BFF Miura Haruma as Sano and we will get Kenshin ver. homoerotic.
He was Kamen Rider Den-O. Awesome!
But he was also a Princess in Princess Princess.
Oh god why did I have to find that out, a good trap he does not make >_<
I just hope that they can adapt the manga perfectly as with the manga adaptation of 20th Century Boys. That was one of the best manga adaptation I have seen.
IIRC Watsuki Nobuhiro was also quite angry with the original anime adaptation of the series, and forbid the Enishi arc to be animated. He was hand twisted with the OVA's, and till now, he feels that they could have done better.
The last ova reflection was a let down, i think the biggest in history. Trust and Betrayal were well portrayed and it was the fillers that killed rurouni kenshin, samurai x:reflection had to much drama and it didn't feel like the samurai x we had grew to love, yes it was interesting to see the greatest slasher in history human limits but it was to pushed, the whole fact that a ACTION series had only 5-6 mins of actually fighting in a movie that was about a hour and a half shows how much they failed.
Can I dare to hope. Live action adaptations of mange/anime have been disappointing at best. I really hope they can pull this off though.
I was about to say....for a second I thought Hollywood took up this one as well. Rurouni Kenshin starring Tom Cruise lol.
The Last Battousai
If it doesn't go well.
You can always blame Decade.
"Onore Dikeido"
Now they just need to find someone badass enough to play Hajime Saitou, if such an actor exists...
Hiro Mizushima/Tendou Souji from Kamen Rider Kabuto
NOOOOO
I can bear Dagon Ball live action movies, I can bear a street fighter live action movies... But not Kenshin!
Its sad how easy is to destroy a legend in theese times...
Den-O Battousai Form
They managed Kamen Rider, this'd oughta work, why not?
nice !! legend !! alive
wait...Wasn't he Kamen rider Den-O?
fuckin dick needs to reprise his role in Den-O
Ore Sanjou, de gozaru!
Huh... O_O
I hope it has lot of kick ass action too and not just loads of storyline ^^ Either way, I can't wait to see it ! Weeeeee !
FUCK YEAH!
Hollywood strikes again(????)
another movie that's gonna suck really bad
Isn't he the guy from Kamen Rider Den-O?
Somehow, he doesn't give the "Kenshin" vibe
this is going to be awesome, i hope the dude can portray kenshin very well. :D
he is Kamen Rider Den-O
ehhhhh!? <usualy his role trademark in den-o and might be use when his playing the comedic guy kenshin
the dudes hot, dont know how its skills on stage are, but let us hope it wont be total crap
Prepare for Den-O jokes in the Kenshin movie.
Like this?
Oro, Sanjou!
I can't hear you
Nakeru De! snaps neck* 45 degrees to the right
Axe form den-o =w=)
Kenshin isn't a man that lives in the fashion world so obviously a rough looking guy would be a better fit person.
Oh and NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO no Live action of one of my favorite OVA's!
Kenshin was never a rough looking guy. The opposite, actualy.
I agree Kenshin is a girl with no boobs and a penis.
True. He's short and looks like a girl. But isn't he supposed to be 28?
I'll be fine with this as long as they stray away from the super "Saiyan Christians" shit they pulled at the end of the show.
OMG PLEASE I BEG YOU DONT MENTION THE FILLER!! it still hurts, to know fillers could do almost irrepairable damage.
hmmm maybe worth a shot still death note is the only live action movie that is actually good the only anime the would interesting in a live action is darker than black but then again i fear for the quality
Never saw 20th Century Boy adaptation I reckon?
Death Note movies = Quality? What the fuck were you on when you were watching those? Those movies were horrible and completely raped plot wise.
Awwww... Don't be so mean to mentally retarded people, will ya?
If someone wants to know who he is, watch Kamen Rider Den-O ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXvsVRhvUI ) episodes or clips on youtube.
Why can't they just come up with ideas for, y'know, new movies? It's sad to see stories sullied by this kind of hideous thing.
Agreed...live action adaptations are horrible and in my opinion sully the name of the series. We have 2 perfectly good examples of pure fail right now...the dragonball movie and the new avatar movie...not to say that i really care about dragonball since i hated it since they went beyond the original Dragonball, and i hated avatar period.
Seriously why? Can't people come up with their own stories?
I know it's hard to come up with an original story, everything you write comes off as similar to something else. But then again, adaptations are never loyal to the original, which means that in the end they DO end up writing something that's just similar but not quite the same.
In the end they do it to cash in the reputation of the original :(
Himura Imagin possesses him.
Henshin into Kenshin.
wait for it new meme in coming!