Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) is a oVA anime that premiered in winter 1999, produced by Studio DEEN.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, there are 4 episodes of about 30 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, drama and romance, with themes such as Samurai, Tragedy, Philosophy and Historical.

On AniList, Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) has an average score of 85%, one of the highest scores on the site, and appears on 47,681 users' lists.

The franchise continues in or follows from: Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan.

In the days before the Japanese Revolution, Hiko Seiijuro, a wandering master swordsman and hermit, encounters a bandit raid on a slave wagon. Hiko kills the raiding bandits in hopes of saving as many lives as possible, but only manages to spare one life from the massacre. Hiko leaves the child, advising him to go to the nearby village and have them take care of him. A few days later, as Hiko comes back to check upon the child he saved, he is shocked to see the child had created graves, both for the slaves he befriended and the bandits who killed them. Seeing potential in the young one, Hiko takes the child under his wing, names him Kenshin, meaning "heart of sword," and teaches him about the art of swordsmanship under the Hiten Mitsuruugi Ryu. Struggling in a constant challenge with his ideal beliefs reflecting against the harshness of reality, Tsuiokuhen tells the melancholic and dark story of Himura Kenshin as one of the most feared assassins of the Japanese Revolution: the Hitokiri Battousai. (Source: MAL Rewrite)

Official synopsis from AniList.