The Twilight Samurai

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The Twilight Samurai is a 2002 drama and romance movie directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa and Nenji Kobayashi. It runs 2h 9m. TMDB users rate it 7.8 out of 10.

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?