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06/24/06
Twilight Samurai (2004)
98 %
Reviews Counted: 66 Fresh: 65 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.1/10
Consensus:
Samurai epic as a touching drama.
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Synopsis: Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick's Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada's poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the title character (Seibei Iguchi), who gets his nickname because he is a lowly worker who chooses... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Min Tanaka, Tetsuro Tamba
Director: Yoji Yamada
Screenwriter: Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama
Producer: Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa
Composer: Isao Tomita, Yousui Inoue
Screenwriter: Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama
Producer: Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa
Composer: Isao Tomita, Yousui Inoue
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A ravishing story of love and honour among Japan's feudal warrior caste with no need for sword-slashing action sequences or half-pint westerners.
04/20/04
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04/13/04
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One of the most beautiful period films in recent memory, made with no pretension or overstatement to tell a deeply personal story.
03/22/04
Yamada has a master's touch, creating a foggy rural world of hills, rivers, and trees in springtime
01/13/07
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01/17/06
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07/21/05
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gives us a humble family man protagonist who goes against the grain of the stereotypical Samurai archetype
06/20/05
Deeply humane… a bittersweet, eloquent tribute to a man who is bent but not crushed beneath the weight of his various competing duties.
02/17/05
Twilight Samurai is to Japanese samurai flicks what Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven was to American Westerns.
10/19/04
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The film does have some very memorable moments. And Sanada's convincing performance as the world-weary former man of action certainly helps.
10/01/04
Director Yoji Yamada tenderly portrays Iguchi as an anomaly among the ambitious samurai - a quiet man who would rather farm than fight.
10/01/04
The story sometimes slips into soapy territory, but when you think the schmaltz is going to ruin it, Yamada gives it just enough of a twist to make you realize this is not your regular romantic film.
09/24/04
With Samurai, faced at 71 with what may have been the most challenging project of his career, [Yamada] blossomed like a gnarled cherry tree exploding in flowers on the last day of spring.
09/24/04
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