Highly acclaimed Japanese historical drama set in the late 1800s about a low-ranking samurai Seibei (Hiroyuki Sanada) who has been caring for his two adored daughters and his aging mother since the death of his wife. While his co-workers go out drinking at the end of the day he heads straight home to his family earning the nickname 'Twilight Samurai'. A new chance of happiness appears to open up for Seibei when a long-ago childhood love Tomoe moves back to the area after fleeing her brutish husband. To defend her honour Seibei challenges her husband to a duel - which he wins despite being armed only with a sharpened stick. Seibei is then asked if he wants to marry Tomoe with whom he is desperately in love but tragically the Samurai code of honour and his shame about his poverty-stricken status force him to refuse her.
A low-ranking samurai must accept a deadly challenge with a rogue samurai just as he discovers that his childhood love is beyond his reach.
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In bustling 19th-century Edo demons lurk in the shadows disguised in human form. They are loathe to show their true faces for even in disguise they can easily be spotted and slain by the arrogant Demon Wardens. But then Bizan the beautiful leader of the demons appears to Kuninari the captain of the Demon Wardens and smugly tells him that the rebirth of Ashura the Queen of the Demons has been foretold and that man's reign over the world will soon end. This visually rich an
In pre-Meiji Japan, low ranking samurai Seibei Iguchi leads a simple life without glory. As a widower, he does not drink and socialise with fellow samurai, preferring instead to tend to his two daughters and his senile mother. Earning the nickname 'Tasogare Seibei' (Twilight Seibei) as he is always home by nightfall, he struggles in poverty to make ends meet.; ; Suddenly re-entering Seibei's life is his long time unrequited love Tomoe, who wishes to divorce her brutal husband. However, the sa...
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