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The Twilight Samurai

Tasogare seibei (The Twilight Samurai)

2002

Yôji Yamada

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Min Tanaka ...

7.6

5,482

Drama. Romance 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When ordered to kill a skilled rebel swordsman, he can't evade his dangerous duty.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"This is an absolutely brilliant film but in a quiet way"
		Dallas Observer	"A gorgeous, emotionally rewarding masterpiece that invites compassion, reflection and, at least from this reviewer, a great deal of admiration."
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It's wonderful to see a Japanese movie in which a samurai, for all his somber discipline and skill, is also a touching and complicated ordinary man"
		Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"This is a determined, resolutely paced, and atypical samurai movie, more an epic of the heart than of the battlefield, and all the more powerful for it."
		Ty Burr Boston Globe	"The anti-'Kill Bill.' This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: gentle, humanistic, rich with observation, quietly aware of all that can't be solved by the sword"
		Ronnie Scheib Chicago Reader	"Gentle, muted film of limited aesthetic ambition"

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