This could be the first ninja movie that will make you cry.
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07/23/04
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Twilight Samurai (2004)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:66
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Samurai epic as a touching drama.
Theatrical Release:Apr 23, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick's Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada's poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the... [More]
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi, Min Tanaka
Director: Yoji Yamada
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Reviews for Twilight Samurai
About the last days of an era, whittled to a poetic vision of a worthy, solitary man.
06/17/04
Top CriticA determined, resolutely paced, and atypical samurai movie.
08/08/04
A ravishing story of love and honour among Japan's feudal warrior caste with no need for sword-slashing action sequences or half-pint westerners.
04/20/04
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.
06/04/04
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06/12/04
Both technically proficient and dramatically satisfying.
04/01/04
It’s a beautiful period epic that’s also a very affecting story about a man of action who yearns to be a man of inaction.
05/27/04
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04/13/04
With Samurai, faced at 71 with what may have been the most challenging project of his career, [Yamada] blossomed like a gnarled cherry tree exploding in flowers on the last day of spring.
09/24/04
The closing third of the film is magnificent in the way it gathers all we have learned about Seibei, and uses it to bring depth to what could have been a routine action sequence, but is much more.
05/21/04
Top CriticThe Twilight Samurai is one action movie older movie audiences should love as much as younger ones.
05/21/04
Top CriticThe unvarnished truth about the samurai way of life (it's not like Uma Thurman in 'Kill Bill'.
04/03/04
As Iguchi, Mr. Sanada epitomizes the kind of man who can still dream and be true to himself amid the daily grind and turmoil. That's a welcome role model in any age.
07/01/04
Top CriticDeeply humane… a bittersweet, eloquent tribute to a man who is bent but not crushed beneath the weight of his various competing duties.
02/17/05
Well worth watching.
05/21/04
For audiences raised on Akira Kurosawa movies, Twilight Samurai feels like something of a revelation, a movie in which the hero's struggles hardly seem epic.
05/21/04
Top CriticThe film does have some very memorable moments. And Sanada's convincing performance as the world-weary former man of action certainly helps.
10/01/04
It'll touch you like no samurai film has.
05/07/04
... works on all levels.
05/17/04
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