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The Twilight Samurai

Year:

2002

Duration:

129 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

8.2

Director:

Yôji Yamada

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 37 wins & 7 nominations

Details

Country: Japan

Release Date: 2002-11-02

Filming Locations: Japan

Cast

Actor

Character

Rie Miyazawa

Hiroyuki Sanada

Seibei Iguchi

Nenji Kobayashi

Choubei Kusaka

Ren Ôsugi

Toyotarou Kouda

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Michinojo Iinuma

Kanako Fukaura

Hiroshi Kanbe

Naota

Miki Itô

Kayano Iguchi

Erina Hashiguchi

Ito Iguchi

Reiko Kusamura

Iguchi's Mother

Setsuko Tanaka

Kii Mizuno

Yuuki Natsusaka

Astushi Maeda

Tsukasa Sugawara

Kôichi Taniguchi

Teruhiko Tanaka

Takako Miyashima

Sachiko Takada

Mayu Komori

Astushi Yoshikawa

Kenji Yoshida

Takashi Yamazaki

Shinya Amako

Rio Ishino

Norio Satou

Keishi Arashi

Baijaku Nakamura

Makoto Akatsuka

Masahiro Satô

Senri Sakurai

Masayasu Kitayama

Toshinori Omi

Shinjiro Nakamura

Min Tanaka

Zenemon Yogo

Keiko Kishi

Ito

Tetsurô Tanba

Tozaemon Iguchi

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Trivia

In the English translation of the movie, there is no year stated.In the epilogue, narrated by Seibeis now grown daughter, she reveals that the main story takes place two years before the 1867-68 "Boshin War", the war in which hear father was "shot and killed".

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Quotes

Seibei Iguchi: I am ashamed to say that over many years of hardship with two daughters, a sick wife and an aged mother, I have lost the desire to wield a sword. A serious fight, the killing of a man, requires animal ferocity and calm disregard for one's own life. I have neither of those within me now. Perhaps in a month... alone with the beasts in the hills I could get them back. But tomorrow, I am afraid, is completely impossible.

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Ito: With a sick wife, two young daughters and an aged mother in his care, my father was unable to drink with his colleagues. He had to hurry home every evening at dusk. I was told the men he worked with gave him the cruel nickname of 'Twilight Seibei'.

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Zenemon Yogo: So they sent you...

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