The Twilight Samurai
– Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century...
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?
02 Nov 2002
Japanese
Yôji Yamada
Shûhei Fujisawa (novels), Yôji Yamada (screenplay), Yoshitaka Asama (screenplay)
Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi
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.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 37 wins & 7 nominations.
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