Cold Mountain vs Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6.9/10 for Cold Mountain). Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins is the shorter watch at 2h 14m compared with 2h 34m. Cold Mountain is the older of the two (2003 against 2012). Both are adventure, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Cold Mountain posterCold Mountain2003 VS Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins posterRurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins2012
Cold MountainRurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Audience score★ 6.9/10★ 7.5/10
Year20032012
Length2h 34m2h 14m
GenresAdventure, History, Romance, WarAction, Adventure, Fantasy, History, War
Country–Japan
DirectorAnthony MinghellaKeishi Otomo
Main castCharlie Hunnam, Kathy Baker, Jude Law, Donald Sutherland, Nicole KidmanTakeru Satoh, Yosuke Eguchi, Koji Kikkawa, Eiji Okuda, Go Ayano

Synopsis

Cold Mountain

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

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