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The Twilight Samurai 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, an impoverished, low-ranking samurai trapped in a lowly bureaucratic post. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and happy life with his…
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Image This is a Japanese film directed by Yoji Yamada. Set in the Edo period, the story follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai living in a rural village. Seibei is a humble and dedicated man, working as a tax official and caring for his two daughters after the death of his wife. His life is austere and marked by routine, but also by sadness and the struggle to provide for his family. Through…More
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Intro What would a collection of Japanese films be without a good samurai offering? Similarly, what would a collection of Japanese film reviews be without mention of a good samurai film or two? Hard indeed to exclude such works that demonstrate the countries' remarkable history and the place of its most famous warrior class within it, and so due to this, I turn to the work of veteran filmmaker, Yoji Yamada, and the…More
Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) should have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. Instead, the tepid Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions won. Another excellent foreign film that could have finished a close second that year was Evil , from Norway. Both films are superior foreign films, with Twilight Samurai getting a slight edge. In the late 19th Century, in the waning days of the Samurai…More