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The Twilight Samurai

Tasogare seibei (The Twilight Samurai)

2002

Yôji Yamada

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Min Tanaka ...

7.6

5,473

Drama. Romance 19th century Japan. Seibei, a just-widowed samurai, struggles to care for his senile mother and two young daughters. He holds back from a possible remarriage, self-conscious about his poverty. When ordered to kill a skilled rebel swordsman, he can't evade his dangerous duty.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"This is an absolutely brilliant film but in a quiet way"	POS
United States	Dallas Observer	"A gorgeous, emotionally rewarding masterpiece that invites compassion, reflection and, at least from this reviewer, a great deal of admiration."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It's wonderful to see a Japanese movie in which a samurai, for all his somber discipline and skill, is also a touching and complicated ordinary man"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"This is a determined, resolutely paced, and atypical samurai movie, more an epic of the heart than of the battlefield, and all the more powerful for it."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"The anti-'Kill Bill.' This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: gentle, humanistic, rich with observation, quietly aware of all that can't be solved by the sword"	POS
United States	Ronnie Scheib Chicago Reader	"Gentle, muted film of limited aesthetic ambition"	NEU

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