The Twilight Samurai
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Yoji Yamada
- Producer(s): Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shigehiro Nakagawa, Ichirô Yamamota
- Writer(s): Yoshitaka Asama, Yoji Yamada
- Studio: Shochiku Films
- Length: 2h 09m
- Official Site: www.shochiku.co.jp/kakushiken/
Synopsis
In nineteenth-century Japan, a widowed samurai caring for his mother and two young daughters has little time or inclination to pursue his profession's traditional warrior life. That changes, however, when he steps forward to defend a young woman from an attack by her drunken ex-husband.