Story about The Twilight Samurai / たそがれ清兵衛 / 黄昏清兵卫 / 黄昏的清兵卫
A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife. Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads...
A 19th-century samurai tries to protect a battered wife.
Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughter (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remain bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sene of social precedences. The conequences are cruel.
