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One of my all time favorites.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The Chief of Police Hajime Saito (Yôsuke Eguchi) and a team of policemen hunt down the outlaw Makoto Shishio (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who was betrayed by the government after defeating the Tokugawa shogunate; however Shishio and his men slaughter the police officers and only Hajime survives. Kenshin Himura (Takeru Satô) is summoned by the government to help them to find Shishio in Kyoto. He refuses first, but when a minister is murdered, he accepts to go and leaves the dojo of Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei) and the boy Yahiko Myojin (Kaito Ohyagi), his friend Sanosuke Sagara (Munetaka Aoki) and Dr. Megumi Takani (Yû Aoi). Kenshin meets the thief Makimachi Misao (Tao Tsuchiya) that tries to steal his sakabato on the way to Kyoto and they stumble upon a boy that tells that his brother and his parents are in danger. They find the trio murdered by Shishio's men and Kenshin defeats them in the nearby village. A man called Sojiro Seta (Ryûnosuke Kamiki) contacts Kenshin and brings him to meet Shishio that asks Sojiro to duel Kenshin. Their sword fight stops when Kenshin's sakabato is broken and Shishio and his men go away. Meanwhile, Kaoru decides to find Kenshin in Kyoto and Yahiko and Sanosuke follow her. When Kenshin arrives at Kyoto, Misao asks whether he would like to go to a cheap inn. Kashiwazaki Nenji (Min Tanaka), who was the ninja Okina that worked for the Tokugawa shogunate, runs the place and teams up with Kenshin. He seeks out the talented blacksmith Shakku Arai to repair his sakabato and finds that he is dead. Arai's son Keiku does not help Kenshin, but when the evil Sawagejo Cho (Ryosuke Miura) kidnaps his baby, he calls Kenshin to save his son and gives him a new sakabato. Kenshin defeats the Shishio's warrior and he is arrested by the police. Soon Hajime and Kenshin learn that Shishio intends to burn Kyoto down and they prepare the defense of the town. Is Sawagejo Cho telling the truth? "Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto taika-hen", a.k.a. "Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno", is a spectacular sequel of "Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan". The story follows Kenshin and his friends from the first film and introduces a villain more evil than in the first film. The sad moment is the unknown fate of the gorgeous and sweet Kaoru Kamiya. Every viewer and fan is certainly hoping she has survived. My vote is ten.Title (Brazil): "Samurai X 2: O Inferno de Kyoto" (Samurai X 2: The Kyoto Inferno")

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.

I'm not a huge fan of the Samurai genre. The blood, brutality and cruelty that inhabits many of the films in this genre is, at times, very disturbing. It was a pleasant surprise therefore to encounter the Rurouni Kenshin series. These films follow the Samurai formula but depart from the norm in so much as they actively downplay the brutality in favour of a more peaceful, hopeful message.The key character Rurouni Kenshin could best be described as a reformed Samurai. Rurouni has come to see the wastefulness of taking human life, choosing, instead, to take a less lethal approach to subduing the bad guys with the blunt edge of a double edged sword. Of course, there are always a few genuinely vile villains and these are dispatched with the swords sharpened edge. Its my understanding this is the second in the live, as opposed to animated, Rurouni Kehshin series of films. I watched the first and enjoyed it immensely so I decided to give the second a go. This film is darker and more serious than its predecessor, possessing somewhat less humour. The violence is a little more intense too and occasionally sadistic but not overly graphic. The conspicuous fight scenes, as was the case in the first outing, remain remarkably polished and exceptionally well choreographed. Especially when you consider the large scale and numbers of people involved in many of the battles scenes scattered throughout the film. The key fight scenes between central hero's and villains are of the highest caliber and its these moments of stirring swordplay and martial skill that make this film really shine. Combine this with solid, original storytelling, good pace and some novel plot twists and turns and you have a very engaging action flick. I watched both this film and its predecessor from end to end without getting up once or feeling in any way bored.There are subtitles, unless, of course, you speak Japanese but I found this film, like the first, so engrossing they hardly felt like any effort at all. Nine of of ten from me.

The fights scenes are a lackluster, the choreography seems to be nonexistent most of the time. The villains are your average bad guys with zero depth. One guy is scaring off this 4 months or something old child just because. He would have stolen candies from him if he had had any. Villain-kun was just that evil. Main character is a moral guy who won't hurt a fly even if that fly would kill him. He respect life, yet gives so little value to his own. I really don't get this guy. Only reason why he won't fight back is *moral talk* it is wrong *moral talk* Very disappointing and very much your typical Japanese production to your okay-ish manga. I could have lived without this adaptation.