Twilight Samurai, The (2002) Rating: Starring: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Keiko Kishi, Nenji Kobayashi, Rie Miyazawa, Ren Osugi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Min Tanaka, Tetsuro Tanba Director: Yoji Yamada Category: Action / Adventure, Avant Garde, Foreign Studio: Empire Pictures Subtitles: English Length: 129 mins Want to buy?           One Of The Best Reviewed Films Of The Year 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.