First Thoughts

Directed by the highly esteemed Yamada Yoji (山田洋次), Twilight Samurai is one of many samurai films set in nineteenth-century feudal Japan. But unlike other films in this genre of Japanese cinema, which tend to be more action epics with lots of fighting, fountains of blood, and overriding themes of good versus evil or honor versus dishonor, Yamada Yoji paints a picture filled with intimate psychological drama that results in an engaging and truly touching movie.