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The twilight samurai [videorecording] / Shockiku/Nippon Television/Sumitomo/Hakuhodo/Nippon Shuppan/Eisei Gekijo ; written by Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama ; produced by Shigehiro Nakagawa, Hiroshi Fukasawa [i.e. Fukazawa], Ichiro Yamamoto ; directed by Yoji Yamada.

Contributor(s): Language: Japanese Summary language: English Publication details: [New York, NY] : Empire Pictures, c2002.Description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 TWI 2002
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mutsuo Naganuma ; edited by Iwao Ishii ; music by Isao Tomita.
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Min Tanaka, Nenji Kobayashi, Ren Osugi.Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

DVD ; Dolby Digital

Soundtrack in Japanese ; subtitles in English.