Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
“The journey begins.”
In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.
Genres
Adventure, Action, Fantasy, War, History
Studio
Studio Swan
Language
ja
Status
Released
How Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$61.7M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$7M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Kenshin Himura
Takeru Satoh
Kenshin Himura
Kaoru Kamiya
Emi Takei
Kaoru Kamiya
Udo Jine
Koji Kikkawa
Udo Jine
Megumi Takani
Yu Aoi
Megumi Takani
Sanosuke Sagara
Munetaka Aoki
Sanosuke Sagara
Gein
Go Ayano
Gein
Banjin Inui
Genki Sudo
Banjin Inui
Yahiko Myojin
Taketo Tanaka
Yahiko Myojin
Aritomo Yamagata
Eiji Okuda
Aritomo Yamagata
Hajime Saito
Yosuke Eguchi
Hajime Saito
Kanryu Takeda
Teruyuki Kagawa
Kanryu Takeda
Tae Sekihara
Kaoru Hirata
Tae Sekihara
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