I have never seen the anime series and so I watched this movie without any bias or expectations. But I am happy to say that I was totally blown away by it. I haven’t seen many samurai movies but this movie was packed with superbly choreographed action scenes. The characters are very appealing and well acted by all the cast. I totally bought into Takeru Satoh as Kenshin. He somehow managed to pull it off being both cute/funny and deadly at the same time. I would recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys a story where a hero saves the day with some hectic sword fighting.