Reviews

• Seibei's story is told by director Yoji Yamada in muted tones and colors, beautifully re-creating a feudal village that still retains its architecture, its customs, its ancient values, even as the economy is making its way of life obsolete.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  27 April 2013

• It's wonderful to see a Japanese movie in which a samurai, for all his somber discipline and skill, is also a touching and complicated ordinary man.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  27 April 2013

• Deeply affecting.

  Joe Morgenstern - The Wall Street Journal
  
  27 April 2013

• Twilight is a great samurai film in the way that "Unforgiven," "The Gunfighter" or "Will Penny"--all muted, somber films about aging gunfighters--are great westerns.

  Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune
  
  27 April 2013

• Reflective, touching, intimate portrait of a samurai facing action in his waning years.

  Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
  
  27 April 2013