Rurouni Kenshin, wandering samurai. Renegade samurai / Fuji Television Network, Inc., SPE Visual Works Inc. ; producers, Koji Kaneda, Mitsuhisa Hida, Ayao Wakana ; director, Kazuhiro Furuhashi.

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"Kenshin is the strogest man in Japan with a sword, but can he defend himself without it? It is none other than Hiruma Gohei who tricks Yahiko into stealing the reverse-blade sword, and then ambushes Kenshin with a pair of deadly hired killers. On holiday in the counryside, Kenshin and his companion...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Anime Works
Fuji Terebijon, Kabushiki Kaisha
SPE Visual Works
Other Authors: Furuhashi, Kazuhiro
Watsuki, Nobuhiro
Kaneda, Koji
Hida, Mitsuhisa
Wakana, Ayao
Sirabella, John
Sherman, Eric P.
Language:Japanese
English
Language of the Original:
Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
Dialogue in English and Japanese with English subtitles.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : AnimeWorks, [2001], ©2001.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Samurai > Drama.
Swordplay > Japan > Drama.
Samurai > Dorama.
Animated television programs.
Action and adventure television programs.
Drama.
Samurai.
Swordplay.
Japan.
Genre:
Drama.
Animated television programs.
Action and adventure television programs.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Renegade samurai.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"Kenshin is the strogest man in Japan with a sword, but can he defend himself without it? It is none other than Hiruma Gohei who tricks Yahiko into stealing the reverse-blade sword, and then ambushes Kenshin with a pair of deadly hired killers. On holiday in the counryside, Kenshin and his companions come across a massive European mansion owned by the wealthy Tsukayama family. There, the young master Yutarou learns swordsmanship from his surrogate father, Raijuuta Isurugi ... [who] plans to use the Tsukayama fortune to fund a new revolution. The Meiji era brought many Western wonders to Japan, but nothing was as big as the first steam powered train. However, when Kenshin, Sanosuke, and the others go for their first train ride, they get involved in a train robbery"--Container.
Note:Special features: liner notes, creditless closing, scene access, trailers, interactive menus.
Videorecording.
Call Number:AF3 D0009757 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
ISBN:1586551140
9781586551148
Credits:Original story, Nobuhiro Watsuki ; animation character design, Hideki Hamasu ; director of photography, Hiroaki Edamitsu. English language version: producer, John Sirabella ; editor, Scott Marchfeld ; translation, Rika Takahashi ; dubbing studio, Bang Boom! Entertainment ; Directed by Eric Sherman.
System Details:DVD; Dolby Digital.