The Twilight Samurai

129 mins
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?

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

Yuuki Natsusaka

Gemba Hattori

Takai Mizuno

Tane

Toshinori Omi

Shichijuro Ohtsuka

Kinnosuke Nakamura II

Samurai Lord

Keishi Arashi

Chief Retainer Hori

Rio Ishino

Pageboy

Norio Sato

Rickshaw Driver

Senri Sakurai

Tozaemon's Attendant

Jun Maeda

Setsuko Tanaka

Tsukasa Sugawara

Ryota Sato

Koichi Taniguchi

Teruhiko Tanaka

Takako Miyajima

Sachiko Takada

Mayu Komori

Takahiro Kuriya

Atsushi Yoshikawa

Kenji Yoshida

Takashi Yamazaki

Shinya Amako

Shuhei Fujisawa

Novel

Yoshitaka Asama

Screenplay

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

Isao Tomita

Original Music Composer

Mutsuo Naganuma

Director of Photography

Iwao Ishii

Editor

Yoji Yamada

Screenplay

Yoji Yamada

Director

Kazuko Kurosawa

Costume Design

Kazumi Kishida

Sound Recordist

Yosui Inoue

Main Title Theme Composer

Yosui Inoue

Theme Song Performance

Kinichi Hanawa

Assistant Director

Atsushi Shimamura

Decorator

Shigeyuki Onodera

Music Producer

Tadashi Kaneda

Still Photographer

Sayuri Suzuki

Still Photographer

Takakazu Aiba

Production Manager

Yoshinori Aso

Production Manager

Junichi Mine

Unit Production Manager

Tomohiko Saito

Unit Production Manager

Yuzo Asahara

Assistant Director

Mikito Tanaka

Assistant Director

Ayato Kurokawa

Assistant Director

Emiko Hiramatsu

Assistant Director

Yasutaka Maehara

Assistant Director

Masaki Arai

Assistant Director

Yukio Hokari

Sound Effects

Naoko Asari

Music Editor

Yoshinobu Nishioka

Production Design

Mitsuo Degawa

Art Direction

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

Takaaki Miyanishi