The featured ethnic instruments in "Kyoto Inferno" include the sho, koto and shehnai (harmonized), as well as some new electronic grooves and more electric guitar.
Basically, familiar musical elements from the first film reappear in old and new guises, mixed with brand new themes and textures. New arrangements of themes from the first film also appear ("No Killing", Kenshin's theme, "Karaku's Dream"). Shishio gets an epic "Fate" theme, as well as a recurring texture for scenes at his battleship hideout ("Scene of Carnage"). Sato of course also composed many new cues, and these provide musically thematic material for the new characters and new locales. For the sequels, many of the tracks from the first were retracked, and though these don't always function as character-specific "themes", they do serve to create a consistent sound-world across all 3 films.
In the first Rurouni Kenshin film (2012), composer Naoki Sato featured the skillful use of ethnic instrumental soloists (oud, bansuri, fiddle) over ambient electronic textures.
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