#るろう人が行 [INTERVIEW] Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Director Keishi Otomo The Films Took Their Current Form Out of a Respect for the Original Material Q──Let’s go back to the film. In the original, Aoshi Shinomori appears in the Kanryū Takeda arc. However, in the film, he appears first in the Kyoto arc. Was there some meaning behind this? 大友組 Keishi Otomo: To be honest, it’s that the first film was at it’s limit. It would have been difficult last time to put Aoshi on top of the many other characters in it. In general, Japanese films at a length of just under 2 hours are composed of a main cast of about 5-6 people. Looking at it that way, if we had put in the Oniwabanshū and had them get tangled with Kanryū Takeda and from there introduce Aoshi, it would have been difficult from a story perspective and the film would have been 3 hours long. You definitely can’t just cast anyone in the role of Aoshi, and you can’t fully depict his sadness in just a few scenes. So it wasn’t that I was just taking liberties with the original. It was out of respect for the series that I didn’t put Aoshi in the first film. Since the main battle is with Shishio, you could even make the argument that Aoshi isn’t really necessary in these films either. That’s because Aoshi of the Oniwabanshū is in some ways a sidestory. But Kyoto Inferno without Aoshi would be impossible. It would be inexcusable to both the original series and the fans. A Kyoto arc without Okina would be unthinkable as well. Read more at otakumode/news/53a930370dc269806e000067
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:14:07 +0000
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