The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray]

The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray]

Director: Y?ji Yamada Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada
Hiroyuki Sanada
, Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa
, Nenji Kobayashi
Nenji Kobayashi
, Ren Ohsugi
Ren Ohsugi
, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray]

The Twilight Samurai [Blu-ray]

Director: Y?ji Yamada Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada
Hiroyuki Sanada
, Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa
, Nenji Kobayashi
Nenji Kobayashi
, Ren Ohsugi
Ren Ohsugi
, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Mitsuru Fukikoshi

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Overview

Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada -- who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora-san series -- directs this good-natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600-1867). Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-level samurai struggling to get by on stipend of 50 rice bales a year while working as a clerk at the clan office. While his co-workers spend their evenings sucking down sake at the local pub, Seibei, whose wife has passed away, heads straight home to care for his two young daughters and doddering mother. One day, his friend Michinojo (Mitsuru Fukikoshi) tells him that his boyhood friend Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa), is leaving her thuggish husband and returning home. Tomoe soon starts to frequent Seibei's house, taking care of his daughters, while Seibei quietly falls in love with the attractive young lass. After defeating Tomoe's husband in a duel, armed with only a pointed stick, Seibei is asked by Michinojo if he wants to marry Tomoe. Seibei declines, too embarrassed by his poverty to accept. Later, as he prepares to perform the distasteful task of killing a fellow samurai, he learns that Tomoe is engaged to another man.

Product Details

Release Date: 03/01/2011
UPC: 4895033772125
Original Release: 0000
Source: Ais
Language: English
Sales rank: 27,678

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Hiroyuki Sanada ?????? ?????
Rie Miyazawa ????? ??????
Nenji Kobayashi ????? ??????
Ren Ohsugi ??????? ????
Mitsuru Fukikoshi ????????? ??????
Hiroshi Kanbe Naota
Ren Osugi Toyotaro Koda
Min Tanaka Zenemon Yogo
Erina Hashiguchi Ito Iguchi
Miki Itou Kayana Iguchi
Keiko Kishi Actor
Tetsuro Tanba Actor
Isao Tomita Composer

Technical Credits
Hiroshi Fukazawa Producer
Yoshitaka Asama Screenwriter
Hiroshi Fukasawa Producer
Yoji Yamada Screenwriter
Shigehiro Nakagawa Producer
Ichiro Yamamoto Producer
Kazumi Kishida Sound/Sound Designer
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