TY - ADVS AU - Sanada,Hiroyuki AU - Miyazawa,Rie AU - Tanaka,Min AU - Kobayashi,Nenji AU - Ōsugi,Ren AU - Yamada,Yōji AU - Asama,Yoshitaka AU - Nakagawa,Shigehiro AU - Fukazawa,Hiroshi AU - Yamamoto,Ichirō AU - Tomita,Isao AU - Fujisawa,Shūhei AU - Naganuma,Mutsuo AU - Ishii,Iwao ED - Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Nihon Terebi. ED - Sumitomo Corporation. ED - Hakuhōdō. ED - Nihon Shuppan Bōeki Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Eisei Gekijo Co., Ltd. TI - The twilight samurai U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2002/// CY - [New York, NY] PB - Empire Pictures KW - Samurai KW - Japan KW - Drama KW - Conduct of life KW - Single fathers KW - Film adaptations KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Samurai films KW - Foreign films KW - Feature films KW - History KW - Restoration, 1853-1870 N1 - Title and credits from container; Based on the story of Shuhei Fujisawa; Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002; Special features: interviews with director Yoji Yamada and star Hiroyuki Sanada; Director of photography, Mutsuo Naganuma ; edited by Iwao Ishii ; music by Isao Tomita; Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Min Tanaka, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi N2 - As the feudal Shogun period is unravelling in late 19th-century Japan, widowed, low-ranking samurai Seibei devotes his life not to the art of war but to his two children and ailing mother. Hopeful that true happiness may at last find him when his childhood love divorces her husband, Seibei instead succumbs to fate when he is forced to face a renowned enemy warrior in a life-or-death battle ER -