The film started shooting on November 4, 2018, and finished on June 28, 2019. Large-scale shooting for more than 7 months was carried out at 43 locations nationwide, including Kyoto, Nara, Shiga, Mie, Hyogo, Kumamoto, Hiroshima, Tochigi, Saitama, Shizuoka, Osaka, and Nagano.
It utilized a total of 6,000 extras.
The final battle between Kenshin and Enishi had to be remade several times because Satoh got exhausted of moving four times in total.
The film adapts the manga series' final arc, though some story elements differ.
The movie was well received in the box office to the point it was one of the highest grossing films in 2021