The Twilight Samura

Description: A 19th century samurai tries to protect a battered wife Seibei Iguchi a low ranking samurai leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid XIX century Japan A widower he has charge of two daughters whom he adores and a senile mother he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe his long time love divorces a brutal husband However even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences The consequences are cruel Written by Eduardo Casais In the Nineteenth Century in Unasaka Province of Yamagata in the Feudal Japan the widow samurai Seibei Iguchi works in the warehouse of the local Commissioner during the day and handicraftsman building cages in the night to have an income of 50 koku meaning a quantity of rice historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year wink gif Seibei raises alone his two daughters the five year old Ito and the ten year old Kayano and his senile mother in a simple property and has a debt of 20 koku due to the expensive funeral of his wife who died of tuberculosis imposed by her family and can not afford to have another wife His colleagues in the warehouse pejoratively call him The Twilight Samurai to express his life without glory When Seibei meets Michinojo Iinuma his childhood friend tells him that his sister Tomoe Iinuma has just divorced from he brutal husband Toyotarou Kouda Seibei reencounters Tomoe for whom he has been in love since he was a child but Tamoe is member of a family of 400 koku and Seibei believes their difference of classes makes their marriage impossible When Kouda challenges Iinuma to a duel Seibei accepts to replace his old friend and needs to use his skills of swordsman again

Country:  Japanese

Released: 2002

Genre: Drama Romance

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