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Seen on: 06/12/2004

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The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Directed by Yôji Yamada

Drama | Romance

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters’ life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Length 129 minutes

Actors

Hiroyuki Sanada | Tetsurō Tamba | Yuuki Natsusaka | Rie Miyazawa | Nenji Kobayashi | Mitsuru Fukikoshi | Keiko Kishi | Min Tanaka | Ren Osugi | Toshinori Omi | Kanako Fukaura | Keishi Arashi | Hiroshi Kanbe | Erina Hashiguchi | Reiko Kusamura | Setsuko Tanaka | Kii Mizuno | Astushi Maeda | Tsukasa Sugawara | Masahiro Sato | Ryota Sato | Makoto Akatsuka | Baijaku Nakamura | Senri Sakurai | Masayasu Kitayama | Rio Ishino | Kinnosuke Nakamura II | Teruhiko Tanaka | Koichi Taniguchi | Takako Miyajima | Miki Ito | Sachiko Takada | Mayu Komori | Takahiro Kuriya | Atsushi Yoshikawa | Kenji Yoshida | Takashi Yamazaki | Shinya Amako | Norio Sato

Viewing Notes

Think this was at CineArt in Evanston where Kevin and I went to see this. I was really moved by the solemnity and drive of Hiroyuki Sanada’s struggling samurai. Yes, it gets a bit cheesy at the end but I love this movie.

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