Twilight Samurai

Tasogare Seibei, feature film, 2002

DIRECTED BY: Yôji Yamada

Twilight Samurai

CAST:
Hiroyuki Sanada (Seibei Iguchi),
Rie Miyazawa (Tomoe Iinuma),
Nenji Kobayashi (Choubei Kusaka),
Ren Osugi (Toyotarou Kouda),
Mitsuru Fukikoshi (Michinojo Iinuma)

SCRIPT:
Yôji Yamada,
Yoshitaka Asama (prema romanima Shuuhei Fujisawe)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Mutsuo Naganuma

Synopsis:
Seibei Iguchi is a low ranking samurai who, after his wife’s death, has to take care of their two children and his old and sick mother. While other samurais go for a drink after work, he faithfully runs home to his family to take care of them. In his devotion, he neglects himself and thus becomes an object of mockery for other samurais. Soon he meets his old love from childhood Tomoe, who helps him to cope with his troubles.

35 mm, color, 129 min