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Title: The Twilight Samurai (2002)
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| Hiroyuki Sanada | ... | Seibei Iguchi | |
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Rie Miyazawa | ... | Tomoe Iinuma |
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Nenji Kobayashi | ... | Choubei Kusaka |
| Ren Osugi | ... | Toyotaro Koda (as Ren Ôsugi) | |
| Mitsuru Fukikoshi | ... | Michinojo Iinuma | |
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Kanako Fukaura | ... | Yae Iinuma |
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Hiroshi Kanbe | ... | Naota |
| Miki Itô | ... | Kayano Iguchi | |
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Erina Hashiguchi | ... | Ito Iguchi |
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Reiko Kusamura | ... | Kinu Iguchi |
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Setsuko Tanaka | ||
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Kii Mizuno | ... | Tane |
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Yuuki Natsusaka | ... | Gemba Hattori |
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Astushi Maeda | ||
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Tsukasa Sugawara | ||
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences. The consequences are cruel. Written by Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
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Twilight Samurai
I don't have a top ten list of all time favorite films but if I did Twilight Samurai would be on it. Nominated for best foreign film the same year that the Hollywood film the last samurai got a few nominations it is impossible not to compare the two. While I enjoyed the Last Samurai and it's message of questioning western cultural imperialism Twilight Samurai is a film on whole different level.
LS is a bloated Hollywood epic that delivers intense battles with huge numbers and a unrealistic unsatisfying bullshit love story. Do we really believe that the woman who lost her husband to Tom Cruise the smelly drunk white would fall in love with him?
Twilight Samurai is the opposite in everyway and in everyway it is a better film that is bound to move to tears the hardest of yall out there. It is the story of a petty samurai who after the long lingering death of his wife finds himself become a devoted father.
When Twilight comes and the other samurai go out to drink, he rushes home to clean the house, tend the field and care for his daughters. He has lost track of his imagine, he smells and all he cares about is what is best for his daughters.
When his childhood crush returns and revolution looms this petty samurai is forced into confronting his status as a samurai. Unlike last samurai the small battle between two samurai's at the end is more emotionally involved that any CGI enhanced battle could ever be. The romance in the film is so sweet, tender and believable that is makes the film special.
This could not be as special as it is without excellent acting, direction and above all writing. Holy crap see this movie.