Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (Director's Cut)

Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal (Director’s Cut) combines the first two parts of the excellent Samurai X trilogy onto one DVD with a small amount of extra footage. This story takes place in 19th century Japan and begins with the young orphan Himura Kenshin as he is trained by the last master of the Hiten Mitsurugi style of sword fighting. Kenshin, now a young man, leaves to fight in the civil warfare dividing his country. Believing that the lives he takes as an assassin will be saving the innocent people of Japan, Kenshin becomes the legendary battousai (man-slayer). Despite his bloody work, he searches for an inner peace which he briefly finds with the help of a woman named Tomoe. What Kenshin doesn’t realize is the devastating way in which their pasts are linked. Trust & Betrayal offer a stirring, emotional mix of interpersonal relationships and quick cutting samurai action, while serving as mature themed prequels to the more child targeted Rurouni Kenshin aired on Cartoon Network.
- Connell Burton McDaniel

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