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The Twilight Samurai (2002) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 2, 2002

Original Title:
たそがれ清兵衛

Alternate Titles:
O Samurai do Entardecer
Samuraj - Zmierzch
Samuraj Soumrak
Tasogare Seibei
Сутінковий Сейбей
Сутінковий самурай
黃昏的清兵衛
黄昏的清兵卫

Genres:
Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
Eisei Gekijo
Hakuhodo
Nippan Group Holdings
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Shochiku
Sumitomo Corporation

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 15  LT: N-13  MX: B-15  NL: 16 

Runtime: 129

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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?

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Additional Lighting Technician:
Takaaki Miyanishi
Hisao Kagami
Masahiko Kataoka
Haruhiro Yamaguchi
Shunri Rinoie
Jun Kodama

Art Direction:
Mitsuo Degawa

Assistant Camera:
Makoto Kusaka
Miho Kimbara
Shinji Hiraki
Takefumi Nakabo

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

Chief Lighting Technician:
Gengon Nakaoka

Costume Design:
Kazuko Kurosawa

Costumer:
Kazuo Matsuda
Emiko Yuzawa

Decorator:
Atsushi Shimamura

Director:
Yoji Yamada

Director of Photography:
Mutsuo Naganuma

Editor:
Iwao Ishii

Executive Producer:
Tomiyasu Ishikawa
Tetsuo Suga
Tomoo Miyagawa
Toshio Hagiwara
Motoyuki Oka
Nobuyoshi Otani

Fight Choreographer:
Hiroshi Kuze
Yuuki Natsusaka

Main Title Theme Composer:
Yosui Inoue

Makeup Artist:
Yuki Hisamichi
Sonomi Muramatsu

Music Editor:
Naoko Asari

Music Producer:
Shigeyuki Onodera

Novel:
Shuhei Fujisawa

Original Music Composer:
Isao Tomita

Producer:
Hiroshi Fukazawa
Shigehiro Nakagawa
Ichiro Yamamoto

Production Design:
Yoshinobu Nishioka

Production Manager:
Takakazu Aiba
Yoshinori Aso

Screenplay:
Yoshitaka Asama
Yoji Yamada

Second Assistant Camera:
Ichiro Suzuki
Tsugio Okada

Sound Effects:
Yukio Hokari

Sound Recordist:
Kazumi Kishida

Steadicam Operator:
Yukio Kaneko

Still Photographer:
Tadashi Kaneda
Sayuri Suzuki

Theme Song Performance:
Yosui Inoue

Unit Production Manager:
Junichi Mine
Tomohiko Saito

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