The Twilight Samurai

One cataclysmic incident can change the course of one's life. This is the story of a widowed samurai who turns a fighter once again.

The Twilight Samurai Country: Japan Director: Yoji Yamada One cataclysmic incident can change the course of one's life. This is the story of a widowed samurai who turns a fighter once again. In nineteenth-century Japan, a 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.