Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins vs The Man with the Iron Heart

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 6.6/10 for The Man with the Iron Heart). The Man with the Iron Heart is the shorter watch at 2h compared with 2h 14m. Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins is the older of the two (2012 against 2017). Both are action, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins posterRurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins2012 VS The Man with the Iron Heart posterThe Man with the Iron Heart2017
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: OriginsThe Man with the Iron Heart
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 6.6/10
Year20122017
Length2h 14m2h
GenresAction, Adventure, Fantasy, History, WarAction, History, Thriller, War
CountryJapan–
DirectorKeishi OtomoCédric Jimenez
Main castTakeru Satoh, Yosuke Eguchi, Koji Kikkawa, Eiji Okuda, Go AyanoStephen Graham, Adam Nagaitis, Rosamund Pike, Geoff Bell, Jack O'Connell

Synopsis

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.

The Man with the Iron Heart

With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

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