give him time to stop Shigure alone and avoid bloodshed. Toki also becomes concerned about Shigure and begs Kenshin to save him. Kenshin and Sanosuke find that the rebellious group cornered in an area with his wounded soldiers. Kenshin and Shigure have a rematch. As Shigure has remembers Kenshin's moves used against Gentatsu, he takes the upperhand until his enemy creates his own variation of his fighting style. Defeated, Shigure tells Kenshin to kill him, but he claims he will not kill anymore. As Toki appears to request Shigure to give up, he accepts to give in to the police. However, Tamono arrives and orders his troops to gun down everybody in the area. In order to save Toki, Shigure uses his body as a shield, dying in the process. An enraged Kenshin takes down the corrupt official while Yamagata stops the other men. Meanwhile, Saito kills the other traitor, Kawaji. In the aftermath, Kenshin confesses to Toki that he killed his brother in the Bakumatsu but she does not hold hatred towards him for that. Toki returns to Yokohama to carry on the dream of the man she loved. Cast The movie's characters are voiced by: Kenshin Himura: Mayo Suzukaze (Japanese), J. Shannon Weaver (English) Kaoru Kamiya: Miki Fujitani (Japanese), Kara Bliss (English) Sanosuke Sagara: Yūji Ueda (Japanese), Gray G. Haddock (English) Yahiko Myojin: Miina Tominaga (Japanese), Derek Wade (English) Hajime Saito: Hirotaka Suzuoki (Japanese), Ken Webster (English) Takimi Shigure: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese), Judson L. Jones (English) Toki Takatsuki: Yūko Miyamura (Japanese), Shaneye Ferrell (English) Gentatsu Takatsuki: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese), Boon Sheridan (English) Yasuharu Musashino: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Ben Wolfe (English) Sadashiro Kajiki: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Clay Towery (English) Aritomo Yamagata: Holly Kaneko (Japanese), Bill Harwell (English) Toshiyoshi Kawaji: Katsuya Shiga (Japanese), David R. Jarrott (English) Eibin Tamono: Jūrōta Kosugi (Japanese), Bill Wise (English) Katsuhiro Tsukioka: Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese), Sam Grimes (English) Release The film was released in Japan on December 20, 1997. It uses the song by L'Arc-en-Ciel as its opening theme and by Animetal as its closing theme. It was released in DVD on May 24, 2000 and Blu-Ray on October 26, 2011. ADV Films released the film in DVD format in English regions on under the title of Samurai X: The Motion Picture on March 27, 2001. Following ADV's closure in 2009, Aniplex took the license to re-release the film under the title of Rurouni Kenshin: