A very good and thoughtful movie.

Fantastic movie! Great character development and supposedly historically accurate. Really enjoyed it and am going to buy the DVD. It was so refreshing to see a REALISTIC sword fight where people actually get cut up with their sharp swords and aren't floating in the air doing fake gymnastics. The director in his comments echoed that this was one of the things he wanted to depict.

I love this movie! So did my whole family!!!!!

I believe that this is the greatest movie I have ever seen. I cried. This movie has a very large heart, and involves skill, money, society, family, death, love and honor. Fabulous!

Enjoyed it even more than City of God. This should have been the Oscar winner for best foreign language film.

Okay, Hawaii was Charles Foster Kane for keeping Jasmine Trias in "American Idol", but give us credit for awarding "The Twilight Samurai" with the Golden Maile Award (Best Feature Film) at the last Hawaii International Film Festival, well before the Academy Awards nominations came out. And yes, it's better than "City of God".

Exceptionally acted and well shot, this movie places all emphasis on character development and story. It is not the usual heroic fair - nothing like "The Last Samurai", in which the same actor, Hiroyuki Sanada, plays Ujio. This is one of my favourite Japanese movies, on par with Kurosawa's masterpieces. Highly recommended.

A little slow at some points but still both fascinating in its portrait of daily life in the samurai era and moving as well. A great film.

This movie is long, boring, and uninteresting in all sorts. I don't understand all the high ratings. It's no where near the level of Kurosawa's work. Story is basically about a man who loses his wife and is left with two daughters and a mother suffering from what seems to be alzheimers. The story just drags on to how he falls in love with his childhood friend which is his bestfriends little sister blah blah blah. When I watch a japanese period film I expect some samurai action this movie lacks a lot of it. There's only 2 fight scenes, one where he fights with a wooden training sword and the other one sucks. Nothing incredible about this movie whatsoever. Go watch Seven Samurai or Sanjuro two of Kurosawa's best works and two of the best Japanese period films in my opinion.… Expand

Those looking for a typical Samurai movie will be disappointed-the protagonist is a reluctant fighter who has to be coerced into using his sword. However, this is a wonderful depiction of Japanese life during a period of societal upheval-when the old ways clashed with the new order-a much more thoughtful movie then The Last Samurai, it is moving and elegaic- but probably too slow moving for most American tastes.… Expand

Loved the acting so much, I could feel every emotion of each of the characters. This is not a samurai story for kids who like a bunch of karate scenes - it's a great emotional story. You don't just watch this movie, you also feel it.