Rurouni Kenshin (Season 1)

Rurouni Kenshin (2023) is an anime series you can watch online on iFILM. Meiji-era Japan, a decade after the shogunate fell. Carrying a sword is now outlawed, yet the streets still run red.

Kenshin Himura wanders the country with a reverse-blade sword — sharpened on the wrong edge so it cannot kill. He was once Hitokiri Battosai, the revolution's deadliest assassin; now he has sworn never to take another life, and atones for every life he already took. He finds shelter with Kaoru Kamiya, who runs a kendo school someone is trying to seize. But Kenshin's past won't stay buried, and old enemies and old comrades keep stepping out of the shadows.

This is a fresh adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga — a 2023 reboot that retells the story from scratch and hews closer to the source than the 1990s anime. Japanese cast: Soma Saito as Kenshin, Rie Takahashi as Kaoru. A samurai drama about guilt and redemption, where every duel is really an argument about whether a man can stop being who he once was. Stream Rurouni Kenshin online on iFILM.