{"id":25964,"date":"2011-06-29T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25964"},"modified":"2011-06-29T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:17:56","slug":"ruroken-live-action-movie-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ruroken-live-action-movie-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"RuroKen Live-Action Movie Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Satou_Kenshin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Satou_Kenshin-450x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Satou_Kenshin\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Satou_Kenshin-450x229.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Satou_Kenshin-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Satou_Kenshin.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sankei Sports newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanspo.com\/geino\/news\/110628\/gnj1106280514015-n1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Japanese film production company Studio Swan (Paradise Kiss) is developing a live-action feature adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki&#8217;s 1994-1999 samurai adventure manga Rurouni Kenshin. Keishi Otomo, who directed actor Takeru Satoh in last year&#8217;s historical drama TV series Ryomaden, will direct the film with Satoh starring as Himura Kenshin. Satoh was reportedly Nobuhiro Watsuki&#8217;s ideal actor to portray Kenshin. Shooting will begin next month for a tentative international release. The film is expected to launch a live-action film franchise. Warner Brothers Pictures Japan will distribute the picture.<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m not even an especially big RuroKen fan, and I still think this is pretty neat.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-06-27\/sankei-sports\/rurouni-kenshin-manga-gets-live-action-film\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sankei Sports newspaper reports that Japanese film production company Studio Swan (Paradise Kiss) is developing a live-action feature adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki&#8217;s 1994-1999 samurai adventure manga Rurouni Kenshin. Keishi Otomo, who directed actor Takeru Satoh in last year&#8217;s historical drama TV series Ryomaden, will direct the film with Satoh starring as Himura Kenshin. Satoh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25966,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964\/revisions\/25966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}