Tasogare Seibei
Yōji Yamada
Tasogare Seibei The Twilight Samurai [videorecording] = The Twilight Samurai Yōji Yamada - [United States] : Empire Pictures, 2004. - 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Inspired by the 1976 short story "The Bamboo Sword" by Shūhei Fujisawa.
From case cover:
Set in the late nineteenth century as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration, Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-ranking samurai of the Unasaka clan in Shonai Province of northeast Japan. The divorce of his childhood friend Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa) leads him into a confrontation with her violent ex-husband, a high-ranking samurai. Just as Seibei begins to dream that despite his impoverishment he might win the hand of the long loved Tomoe, he is caught in the shifting turmoil of the times and is assigned, against his wishes, to confront and kill a renowned warrior on the wrong side of a clan power struggle.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Region 1; 4:3 fullscreen.
Japanese audio with English subtitles.
Samurai--Japan--Drama.
Soldiers--Conduct of life--Drama.
Love stories, Japanese.
Samurai films--Japan.
Feature films--Japan.
Japan--History--Restoration, 1853-1870--Drama.
PN1997 / .T376 2002
Tasogare Seibei The Twilight Samurai [videorecording] = The Twilight Samurai Yōji Yamada - [United States] : Empire Pictures, 2004. - 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Inspired by the 1976 short story "The Bamboo Sword" by Shūhei Fujisawa.
From case cover:
Set in the late nineteenth century as the feudal Shogun period was giving way to the Meiji Restoration, Seibei Iguchi (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a low-ranking samurai of the Unasaka clan in Shonai Province of northeast Japan. The divorce of his childhood friend Tomoe (Rie Miyazawa) leads him into a confrontation with her violent ex-husband, a high-ranking samurai. Just as Seibei begins to dream that despite his impoverishment he might win the hand of the long loved Tomoe, he is caught in the shifting turmoil of the times and is assigned, against his wishes, to confront and kill a renowned warrior on the wrong side of a clan power struggle.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 2.0; stereo; NTSC; Region 1; 4:3 fullscreen.
Japanese audio with English subtitles.
Samurai--Japan--Drama.
Soldiers--Conduct of life--Drama.
Love stories, Japanese.
Samurai films--Japan.
Feature films--Japan.
Japan--History--Restoration, 1853-1870--Drama.
PN1997 / .T376 2002