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The Twilight Samurai(Movie, 2002)

Original title: "たそがれ清兵衛" (Japanese/JA)
2h 9min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love, History
The Twilight SamuraiRating: 3.9/5 (with 126126 votes)
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛, literally "Twilight Seibei") is a 2002 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai employed as a bureaucrat. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and happy life with his daughters and his mother, who has dementia. Through an unfortunate turn of events, the turbulent times conspire against him. The film was inspired by the short story "The Bamboo Sword" by Shuhei Fujisawa. The Twilight Samurai won an unprecedented 12 Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The Twilight Samurai was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Twilight Samurai

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About 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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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Shot in: Japan
Plays in: Japan
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/02/2002
Director: Yōji Yamada
Executive Producer: Toshio Miyakawa, Motoyuki Oka, Toshio Hagihara
Film Editor: Iwao Ishii
Director of Photography: Mutsuo Naganuma
Composer: Isao Tomita
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"O Samurai do Entardecer"
"黄昏的清兵卫"
"Tasogare Seibei"
"黃昏的清兵衛"
"Samuraj - Zmierzch"
"Сутінковий самурай"
"Сутінковий Сейбей"

3 movies in the Collection

2002 The Twilight Samurai
2004 The Hidden Blade ("隠し剣 鬼の爪")
2006 Love and Honor ("武士の一分")

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:20391, Added: 02/22/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024