Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal 1999 123movies

Watch Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal 1999 123movies, Full TV Series Online – In Meiji era Japan, Kenshin Himura has been trained in the deadliest of sword arts. When the House he was hired by is defeated and forced into hiding, Kenshin must pretend to be the husband of Tomoe. The only catch is, Kenshin killed her fiance, and she is now secretly spying on him. While in hiding, Kenshin and Tomoe grow to love each other, and Kenshin comes to terms with who he is. This is the backstory to the Rurouni Kenshin manga and to a lesser extent, the television series based off of the manga..
Plot: In the era of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, an assassin regains his humanity.
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its really heartbreaking!!!
What you would call me if i say there is no true love? …A fake? a fool?

i was watching the ninja scroll OVA before this …halfway down the line i got bored with all the mechanical gadgets used extensively in the scroll . I felt disappointed , and decided to quit it.

Then, i just thought ..”lemme check this so called kenshin as well” (sarcastically). To my amazement i was glued to my seats after experimenting the first few minutes . what a score ! man o man. what a storyline..boy o boy! what a scenic..girl o girl!

Believe me . i was so touched by the movie that i missed my dinner !

i wonder how people make such movies that can take your soul away..

Ruroundi Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal
If there is one word adequate for describing “Ruroundi Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal”, it would be “inconsistent”. Although the story, storytelling and animation all suffer from a lack of balance, there are faint glimmers of brilliance to be found in the mini-series, explaining it being frequently mistaken for one of the masterpieces of Japanese animation.

The first of four episodes serves as backstory for the backstory for the main plot, and with “backstory” (the first “backstory that is, for a lot more backstory is coming) I mean the protagonist’s complete character development over the course of a small decade, conveyed through half an hour of exposition of differing subtlety and clarity. To keep the episode interesting, the chronology has been stirred somewhat by cutting between timelines, which mostly has the contrary effect of making the story feel convoluted, especially noting the shipments of minor characters dumped onto the screen with little introduction and the possibility of never showing up again.

The second episode provides the more recent backstory, centering around the shogun wars during the late nineteenth century. Considering all of this is background information for the personal conflict of the second half of the series (the one with a plot), it should be noted a lot of time is spend on oblique dialogue concerning the geopolitical situation in Japan, which is mostly irrelevant for the central conflict. At the same time, the second episode features more action than the first, but most of it is disappointing. In my experience, the audience is usually interested in being able to *see* the action, besides a few flashes of blood (or tomato juice, for as far I could distinguish) illuminating the dark sky, and covering the dark streets, dark houses and dark corpses. And intercutting the fighting with stroboscopic black screens is not a way to heighten the tension, for the presumed majority of viewers who do not suffer from epilepsy, that is.

The third episode is the one that finally gets to the main plot, and the first episode to actually be good. The awkward action and shogun politics are brought to the background, shifting the focus to inner- and personal conflict. The protagonist’s struggle with the question whether blindly killing people is truly the best way to create a better world (superficial as this conflict may be) is beautifully represented by the leitmotiv of a continuously reopening wound on his cheek, while the interaction with the woman he is sheltering with is subtle and believable. Their conversations always have an complex undertone of love, grief, doubt and fear, without directly addressing those matters. The audience is not informed of how their relationship develops, but shown through the sophisticated interactions, which is how the potential of film as a medium is fully realised. For a delightful thirty minutes, “Ruroundi Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal” was actually great.

After the sudden increase in quality during the third episode, I prayed: “Please, let the last episode not just be sword fighting and shameless melodrama.” How I hate to be right. The deliberate understatement has been traded in for operatic betrayal and misconception, combined with the first two episodes’ action, luckily somewhat more bearable because of the lighter backgrounds. The final episode still is a melancholic portrait of a samurai’s stoicism, but ultimately, “Ruroundi Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal” has thrown away any opportunity for nuance.

The animation is hit-and-miss as well. Some characters look more realistic than usual for the medium, while others look like walking fish, with appropriate lip movement. The backgrounds are plagued by a similar imbalance: the ones are not obscuring brown and oppressive grey, are so brightly coloured they interfere with the characters, making the frames feel unbalanced, as it is difficult to decide where to focus.

“Ruroundi Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal” is cobbled together from ill-fitting elements, most of which were not very good in the first place. The mini-series has moments of beauty and even shimmers of genius, mostly in the third episode, but the structural ineptness undermines the impact, as the first half is tedious set-up and the second lacks decent pay-off. Many lessons can be learned from its triumphs and mistakes, and it should be watched by fans of the medium, although a certain moderation in critical response would be appropriate.

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Original Language ja
Runtime 30 min (4 episodes), 1 hr 58 min (118 min) (director’s cut)
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Rated TV-MA
Genre Animation, Action, Adventure
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Actors Mayo Suzukaze, Junko Iwao, Nozomu Sasaki
Country Japan
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Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
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