The Twilight Samurai

Synopsis

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Trailer

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Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada

Seibei Iguchi

Rie Miyazawa

Tomoe Iinuma

Nenji Kobayashi

Choubei Kusaka

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Michinojo Iinuma

Min Tanaka

Zenemon Yogo

Ren Osugi

Toyotaro Koda

Hiroshi Kanbe

Naota

Miki Ito

Kayano Iguchi

Ito Senba

Ito Iguchi

Keiko Kishi

Older Ito Iguchi

Reiko Kusamura

Kinu Iguchi

Tetsuro Tamba

Tozaemon Iguchi

Kanako Fukaura

Yae Iinuma

Makoto Akatsuka

Yazaki

Masahiro Sato

Sekiguchi

Masayasu Kitayama

Kawanami

Baijaku Nakamura

Gonbei Terauchi

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Yuuki Natsusaka

Gemba Hattori

Takai Mizuno

Tane

Toshinori Omi

Shichijuro Ohtsuka

Crew

Art

• Atsushi Shimamura Decorator
• Yoshinobu Nishioka Production Design
• Mitsuo Degawa Art Direction

Camera

• Mutsuo Naganuma Director of Photography
• Tadashi Kaneda Still Photographer
• Sayuri Suzuki Still Photographer
• Ichiro Suzuki Second Assistant Camera
• Tsugio Okada Second Assistant Camera
• Makoto Kusaka Assistant Camera
• Miho Kimbara Assistant Camera
• Shinji Hiraki Assistant Camera
• Takefumi Nakabo Assistant Camera
• Yukio Kaneko Steadicam Operator

Costume & Make-Up

• Kazuko Kurosawa Costume Design
• Kazuo Matsuda Costumer
• Emiko Yuzawa Costumer
• Yuki Hisamichi Makeup Artist
• Sonomi Muramatsu Makeup Artist

Crew

• Hiroshi Kuze Fight Choreographer
• Yuuki Natsusaka Fight Choreographer

Directing

• Yoji Yamada Director
• Kinichi Hanawa Assistant Director
• Yuzo Asahara Assistant Director
• Mikito Tanaka Assistant Director
• Ayato Kurokawa Assistant Director
• Emiko Hiramatsu Assistant Director
• Yasutaka Maehara Assistant Director
• Masaki Arai Assistant Director

Editing

• Iwao Ishii Editor

Lighting

• Gengon Nakaoka Gaffer
• Masahiko Kataoka Electrician
• Shunri Rinoie Electrician
• Haruhiro Yamaguchi Electrician
• Hisao Kagami Electrician
• Jun Kodama Electrician
• Takaaki Miyanishi Electrician

Production

• Hiroshi Fukazawa Producer
• Tomiyasu Ishikawa Executive Producer
• Tetsuo Suga Executive Producer
• Tomoo Miyagawa Executive Producer
• Shigehiro Nakagawa Producer
• Toshio Hagiwara Executive Producer
• Motoyuki Oka Executive Producer
• Nobuyoshi Otani Executive Producer
• Ichiro Yamamoto Producer
• Takakazu Aiba Production Manager
• Yoshinori Aso Production Manager
• Junichi Mine Unit Production Manager

Sound

• Isao Tomita Original Music Composer
• Kazumi Kishida Sound Recordist
• Yosui Inoue Main Title Theme Composer
• Yosui Inoue Theme Song Performance
• Shigeyuki Onodera Music Producer
• Yukio Hokari Sound Effects
• Naoko Asari Music Editor

Writing

• Shuhei Fujisawa Novel
• Yoshitaka Asama Screenplay
• Yoji Yamada Screenplay

Photos