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The Twilight Samurai
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer99%as of 2021-10-05
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic82/100as of 2024-03-28
What it is
The Twilight Samurai is a 2002 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa. Set in mid-19th century Japan, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, it follows the life of Seibei Iguchi, an impoverished, low-ranking samurai trapped in a lowly bureaucratic post.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- Japanese
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