The Twilight Samurai

Tasogare Seibei

Japan

2002

129 Min

Color

1.85:1

Japanese

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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EXEC Tomiyasu Ishikawa, Tetsuo Kan, Tomoo Miyakawa, Toshio Ogiwara, Motoyuki Oka, Nobuyoshi Ôtani

PROD Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa, Ichiro Yamamoto

SCR Shûhei Fujisawa, Yôji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama

CAST Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Ôsugi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Kanako Fukaura, Hiroshi Kanbe, Miki Itô, Erina Hashiguchi, Reiko Kusamura

Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences. The consequences are cruel. —IMDb

Director

Yôji Yamada

Yōji Yamada (山田洋次, Yamada Yōji?, born September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films.

He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the age of 2 he was brought up in Manchuria. Following the end of World War II, he came back to Japan and subsequently he lived in Yamagata Prefecture.

After receiving his degree from Tokyo University in 1954, he entered Shochiku and worked under Yoshitaro Nomura as a scriptwriter or as an assistant director.

He has won many awards throughout his lengthy career and is well-respected in Japan and by critics throughout the world. He wrote his first screenplay in 1958, and directed his first movie in 1961. Yamada continues to make movies to this day.

He is a guest professor of Ritsumeikan University. —wikipedia

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Chris Jones

10Apr12

I didn't like the color palette and the obtrusive Tangerine-Dream-lite-with-flutes soundtrack was pretty obnoxious. Everything else was absolutely fantastic.

Hugo Resendiz Saldivar

6Feb12

Con una dirección excelente y un guión sencillo y conmovedor, se presenta esta cinta ambientada en la época feudal japonesa, con muy buen trabajo de arte. Me gusto mucho como se mostró al antagonista final, de una manera que asemejaba a un ente sobrenatural.

Ryan Borja

23Oct11

With the masterful direction by one of Japan's well-loved filmmaker, the film is not only affectionate and poignant, Twilight Samurai teaches the importance of living life with quiet dignity, honor and contentment. In another level, the film works both as an elegy to the ending samurai era and film genre that have catapulted Japan to the attention of the world. Just bring some tissues when you watch this film.