Rurouni Kenshin: The Great Kyoto Fire Teases Shishio and the Juppongatana

Seriously does Rurouni Kenshin: The Great Kyoto Fire need more hyping when it's already a hypebeast on it's own? We'll all watch the movie when it comes out regardless of who will be distributing it, so do they still need to whet our appetites? The answer is placed below after this photo...

Shishio Makoto and the Juppongatana

Yes, dammit, the answer is yes!

So for context and to make things SEO friendly (because that's what I do), these is the main members of the Juppongatana, the ruthless criminal organization led by Makoto Shishio (Tatsuya Fujiwara). 

And these guys really did a number on most of the good guys in Samurai X/ Rurouni Kenshin. Anji and Sanosuke's fist fight was my first forray in powdered blood. Seto Sojiro and Kenshin Himura's fight was the most eye-popping and hell even the triple tag fight between Misao, Kaoru and Yoshi was amazing.  

Can't wait to see those fights happen in the big screen. Movie 2 comes out August 1 and movie 3 comes out September 1.

First Look at Shishio for Rurouni Kenshin 2 and 3

Here's what actor Tatsuya Fujiwara will look like as Shishio Makoto for the upcoming second and third Rurouni Kenshin movies. 

This is awesome. Not only does it look realistic it's also very fateful to the source material's look. Although I still can't fathom the idea of a severely burned swordsman being the most brutal killer in Meiji era Japan. Mind boogling. 

Special thanks to Les for the initial heads up.

First Look at Ryunosuke Kamiki as Sōujirōu Seta

Here's Ryunosuke Kamiki as Sōujirōu Seta on the set of the second (and third) Rurouni Kenshin film.

He actually doesn't look like Sojiro. :(

Maybe it's just in the angle?

Takeru Satoh on the Set of the Rurouni Kenshin Sequels

Here's Takeru Satoh, the star of all three Rurouni Kenshin movies, on the set of the third movie which will be called Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen.

Is that his cat? That is so cute! 

By the hoot, second half of the sequels have begun principal photography so we could definitely expect this to be on schedule when it's released Summer of 2014.