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- 2004
- Empire Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
- 2004
- Empire Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
Summary A family drama set in the late nineteenth century Japan, as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration. [Empire Pictures]
Directed By: Yôji Yamada
Written By: Shûhei Fujisawa, Yoshitaka Asama, Yôji Yamada
- 2004
- Empire Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
- 2004
- Empire Pictures
- 2 h 9 m
The Twilight Samurai
8.0
Summary A family drama set in the late nineteenth century Japan, as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration. [Empire Pictures]
Directed By: Yôji Yamada
Written By: Shûhei Fujisawa, Yoshitaka Asama, Yôji Yamada
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
82
92% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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A gorgeous, emotionally rewarding masterpiece that invites compassion, reflection and, at least from this reviewer, a great deal of admiration. It's no wonder that it won 12 Japanese Academy Awards.
Combines novelistic detail with cinematic sweep.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
8.0
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This is a determined, resolutely paced, and atypical samurai movie, more an epic of the heart than of the battlefield, and all the more powerful for it.
Welcome to Yoji Yamada. After decades of comedies, he arrives--in this country, at least--with a uniquely touching samurai film. At the age of seventy-three, he starts a new career.
Timeless.
Though it includes a couple of sword fights, Yamada's epic domestic drama could easily be called an anti-samurai film. But its aim is less to subvert the genre's conventions than to deepen them, extending its parameters to include the minutia and rhythms of everyday life.
Gentle, muted film of limited aesthetic ambition.
Production Company
Eisei Gekijo,
Hakuhodo,
Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K.,
Nippon Television Network (NTV),
Shochiku,
Sumitomo Corporation
Release Date Apr 23, 2004
Duration 2 h 9 m
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 13 Wins & 15 Nominations
Kinema Junpo Awards
• 7 Wins & 7 Nominations
