The Twilight Samurai
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?
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- Cast：
- Hiroyuki Sanada , Rie Miyazawa , Nenji Kobayashi , Mitsuru Fukikoshi , Min Tanaka , Ren Osugi , Hiroshi Kanbe
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Just so...so bad
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
The kind of film that Hollywood lack. In other words, focused on what it supposed to show without pushing any modern liberal ideologies that are Irrelevant with this film. Also the actors gave a very pleasing performance.
Viewed on DVD. Cinematography = ten (10) stars; score = nine (9) stars; interior set design = eight (8) stars. This is an excellent drama, well executed and not dependent upon the histrionics often presented in films dealing with Samurai situations. It is also well directed and acted with sit-up-and-pay-attention suspense toward the end of the story. It includes a "Western-style" happy ending (often in short supply for Samurai films) albeit a short lived one according to the narration. Cinematography and film score are excellent. Sets, especially the exterior ones, exhibit a high level of cultural-period authenticity. (Having explored many restored houses from the period depicted in the film, the ones utilized here may have been on-location "originals.") Highly recommended. WILLIAM FLANIGAN, PhD.
A samurai lives with his mother having dementia and his young children. He works hard to get out of the debt, so he is getting dirty and is called "Twilight Seibei". However, he does't forget the loyal mind. This film depends on samurai spirit, Bushido in Japan. I think Bushido exist in the roof of Japan and also forms Japanese mind. The Twilight Samurai can express that point so well. Not only samurai but also Japanese devoted woman is depicted. Sometimes there are scary scenes, for example; a duel between samurais, however I want many people who don't know about Japan at all to watch the film and to feel Japanese beautiful spirit.
As an Asian movie affectionado, this movie was hard to pass up. As seen from the high ratings, this is an excellent movie. This was the first movie made by director Yoji Yamada on a novel by Shuhei Fujisawa. This was also the first authentic samurai movie he's directed, and reportedly it took him over 10 years of planning, and over a year of historic research to complete this film. This movie was based on two other novels by Shuhei Fujisawa called Takemitsu Shimatsu, and Iwaibito Sukehachi.It seems strange that a story that is based on such a foreign culture gets universally accepted by people around the world. What part of the life of Seibei has such appeal is a mystery to me. Artistry of director Yoji Yamada is undeniable. He makes the finest samurai movie that's not seen in recent years. Indeed without him, Japanese period piece movies would be missing the artistry it should have.This is the first of Yoji Yamada's successful series of samurai movies based on Shuhei Fujisawa's novel. The movie won Japanese Academy Award in all divisions which was the second time in Japanese movie history since "Shall we Dance". To me, the ending was little weak, but it was a very entertaining movie to watch.
