The Twilight Samurai (2002) on Netflix
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking widowed samurai, clerks in a granary and raises two daughters and his senile mother. Michinojo Iinuma returns, and his sister Tomoe has divorced a brutal husband.
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Plot summary
His wife's death from tuberculosis left Seibei Iguchi with a funeral debt of twenty koku, two daughters, Kayano and Ito, and his senile mother. He clerks in a granary in Unasaka, in the province of Yamagata, on an income of fifty koku, and builds cages at night; his coworkers call him the Twilight Samurai. His childhood friend Michinojo Iinuma returns and says that Tomoe, his sister, has divorced Toyotarou Kouda. Seibei has loved Tomoe since childhood but believes their difference in rank makes marriage impossible.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Twilight Samurai (2002)
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- Yoji Yamada's film won an unprecedented 12 Japanese Academy Awards, among them Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay.
- The Twilight Samurai was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, Japan's first nomination in twenty-two years, and lost to the Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions.
