The Twilight Samurai (2002)
たそがれ清兵衛
ThumbScore
👍 81%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 90%
(RT: 99%, MC: 82) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Rie Miyazawa as Tomoe Iinuma
Nenji Kobayashi as Choubei Kusaka
Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Michinojo Iinuma
Hiroshi Kanbe as Naota
Miki Ito as Kayano Iguchi
Is The Twilight Samurai good?
Most people think so. 81% audience score, estimated from 378 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.
Overview
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves? Wikipedia ↗
