A major commercial success in Japan, where it opened late last year, veteran director Yoji Yamada’s first samurai picture, "The Twilight Samurai," is unlikely to make an international impact at the ...

TOKYO — Samurais are Yoji Yamada’s new passion. They have almost nothing to do with the Western image of fighting machines drenched in blood or the sword-wielding, testosterone-filled heroes of ...

has recently issued the film on Blu-ray as part of their Limited Edition Series (3,000 copies in total). Yamada presents Seibei as a man of quiet dignity. He’s embarrassed when called out for his poor ...

"The samurai's day is done," confesses a grizzled veteran swordsman before his showdown with the impoverished hero, Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada), in the final moments of the elegiac "The Twilight Samurai.

The title character of “The Twilight Samurai” is not quite like any samurai we’ve seen in films before. And that has everything to do with the movie’s charm. His name is Seibei (played by Hiroyuki ...

Think of "Twilight Samurai" as the equivalent of a late-'50s western. I'd date it to about 1958, as the genre, after 55 years, is overcome by fatigue. It has worked through most of its permutations: ...

For Westerners unschooled in the way of the movie samurai, the classic image of the loyal retainer doubtless looks something like Obi-Wan Kenobi -- or the late John Belushi. A genial riff on the great ...

Read up on the latest The Twilight Samurai News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Seibei Iguchi, a humble and low-ranking samurai, balances his duties with caring for his two young ...

Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada (of the popular Tora-san series) has concocted an atypical samurai film (2003), whose unassuming hero, Seibei, a low-ranking, poorly paid samurai who works as a ...