The Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yamada's drama about the home and love life of a poor-but-honest samurai, walked away with 12 of the 13 Japan Academy Awards. The film, which is still ranked in the Japanese ...

TOKYO — Samurais are Yoji Yamada’s new passion. They have almost nothing to do with the Western image of fighting machines drenched in blood or the sword-wielding, testosterone-filled heroes of ...

Dir: Yoji Yamada. Japan. 2002. 129mins. The winner of a slew of film awards at home and a competition selection at Berlin next month, The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) may finally propel director ...

The title character of “The Twilight Samurai” is not quite like any samurai we’ve seen in films before. And that has everything to do with the movie’s charm. His name is Seibei (played by Hiroyuki ...

Iguchi Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a widowed samurai. A samurai who no longer wishes to kill, but instead wants to devote himself entirely to his two daughters and settle down. His friend encourages ...

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Read up on the latest The Twilight Samurai News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Seibei Iguchi, a humble and low-ranking samurai, balances his duties with caring for his two young ...

Without the painterly magnificence of "Hero," the macho Hollywood hokum of "The Last Samurai" or the bloody, virtuoso violence of "Kill Bill," the Japanese film "The Twilight Samurai" might seem in ...

A melodramatic martial arts movie? Pull the other one. As unlikely as it sounds, that's precisely what the skilled Japanese director Yoji Yamada has fashioned with the beguiling Twilight Samurai.