Think of "Twilight Samurai" as the equivalent of a late-'50s western. I'd date it to about 1958, as the genre, after 55 years, is overcome by fatigue. It has worked through most of its permutations: ...

Read up on the latest The Twilight Samurai News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Seibei Iguchi, a humble and low-ranking samurai, balances his duties with caring for his two young ...

'The Twilight Samurai" chronicles the story of Seibei, a low-ranking warrior trying to survive and raise his two young daughters during the turmoil of the Meiji Restoration. The story comes to a head ...

TOKYO — Samurais are Yoji Yamada’s new passion. They have almost nothing to do with the Western image of fighting machines drenched in blood or the sword-wielding, testosterone-filled heroes of ...

A poster designed by Peter Strausfeld for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 drama "Seven Samurai" starring Toshiro Mifune. The Samurai existed from the 12th century until the Meiji era in the late 1800s, which ...

. Fans of Quentin Tarantino's violent genre mix-mastery who get lured in by the new film's title will walk out in disappointment, bloodlust unsated. This is an old man's movie in all the good ways: ...

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 ...

Set in the late 19th century—the waning days of the samurai caste—this elegiac 2003 drama stars veteran actor Hiroyuki Sanada as a widowed warrior of low rank who’s sold his sword to cover his debts ...

Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada (of the popular Tora-san series) has concocted an atypical samurai film (2003), whose unassuming hero, Seibei, a low-ranking, poorly paid samurai who works as a ...

I must admit my knowledge of samurai culture comes mainly from reading James Clavell's Shogun and watching Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack. This lack of knowledge, though, was no deterrent to becoming ...