Blu-ray Release: The Twilight Samurai

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Laurence
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Blu-ray Release Date: Nov. 11, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time

The Twilight Samurai movie scene

Hiroyuki Sanada is The Twilight Samurai

The 2002 drama-romance The Twilight Samurai—that’s right, there’s not a whole lot of action in this one—was written and directed by veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada.

Set in mid-19th Century Japan a few years before the Meiji Restoration, the movie follows the life of Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada), a low-ranking samurai widower employed as a bureaucrat. Poor, but not destitute, he still manages to lead a content and happy life with his daughters and senile mother. But through an unfortunate turn of events, the turbulent times conspire against him…

Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, The Twilight Samurai fared better in its homeland, where it won an unprecedented 12 Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, the time to pre-order your Blu-ray discs directly from distributor Screen Archives NOW

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.