"Director: Yoji Yamada"

• The Hidden Blade | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £20.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (5.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A low-ranking Samurai finds himself caught up in the nostalgic end to the feudal epoch of Japan.

• The Twilight Samurai | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.89   |  Saving you £6.10 (88.53%)   |  RRP £12.99

  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.

• The Twilight Samurai | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (10.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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.

• Love And Honor | DVD | (22/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An award winning masterpiece of sacrifice and devotion Love and Honour weaves a timeless tale set in the waning days of feudal Japan. Directed by Academy Award'' nominee Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) and starring Takuya Kimura (2046) Love and Honour depicts the emotional intensity of an age when respect was more valuable than riches and love cut more truly than any sword. Shinnojo Mimura is a samurai sharing a hand to mouth existence with his beautiful wife Kayo. Frustrated by his lowly status within the castle ranks Shinnojo dreams of better days instructing children in the way of the sword. But destiny it would seem has other plans... A freak accident takes the warrior's sight leaving Shinnojo cursed. Losing his status and pride his hopes and dreams and even himself to this life of eternal darkness only one path lies open for Shinnojo: That of the true and noble samurai. Love and Honour - Tale of the fallen samurai..

• The Hidden Blade | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Japanese period samurai drama. Munezo Katagiri (Masatoshi Nagase) is a samurai in 19th century Japan who finds himself torn between the love he feels for a lowly farm girl and his fidelity to a dying tradition. Unable to marry the girl because of their differing social status Munezo's conflict over his position is comes to a head when he is ordered to kill a traitor - who turns out to be his oldest friend.

• The Twilight Samurai | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  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...