The Twilight Samurai Comments

  • Maribel 2022-03-22 08:01:02

    I prefer the description of "simple folk customs" in the first half of the film. It can probably be regarded as a daily film of "work-home-work-home". Except for the death of his wife and the memory loss of his mother, the life of Qingbingwei It has been unfolding in an orderly manner, and the cuteness of the two daughters and the single-mindedness of childhood playmates are undoubtedly a great comfort in their tired and stylized life. "Twilight's Qingbingwei" can be seen as a...

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The Twilight Samurai quotes

  • Kayano Iguchi: Father, If I learn to do needlework someday I can make kimonos. But what good will book learning ever do me?

    Seibei Iguchi: Well, it probably won't ever be as useful as needlework. But you know, book learning gives you the power to think. However the world might change, if you have the power to think you'll always survive somehow. That's true for boys and for girls. All right?

    Kayano Iguchi: Yes.

  • Seibei Iguchi: I am ashamed to say that over many years of hardship with two daughters, a sick wife and an aged mother, I have lost the desire to wield a sword. A serious fight, the killing of a man, requires animal ferocity and calm disregard for one's own life. I have neither of those within me now. Perhaps in a month... alone with the beasts in the hills I could get them back. But tomorrow, I am afraid, is completely impossible.