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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021) is a Japanese samurai action drama you can watch online on iFILM. Keishi Otomo directs Takeru Sato in the prequel that finally explains how a feared killer became the wandering swordsman who vowed never to take a life again.
The story drops back to the bloody close of the shogunate, when young Himura Kenshin serves the revolution as an assassin called Battosai. He has lost count of the men his blade has cut down. Then he crosses paths with Tomoe Yukishiro, a quiet woman carrying a heavy secret of her own. What grows between them reshapes his entire path and reveals the origin of the cross-shaped scar on his cheek, the franchise's longest-running mystery.
Adapted from Nobuhiro Watsuki's beloved manga, this entry caps the five-film run starring Sato. The swordfights are choreographed with acrobatic precision and few visible cuts, a signature of Otomo's crew. Yet The Beginning is darker and quieter than what came before, trading rousing adventure for a tragic love story about devotion and the bill that always comes due. It rewards longtime anime fans and newcomers willing to start at the end. Stream Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021) online on iFILM.
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