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The Twilight Samurai
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Twilight Samurai (or Tasogare Seibei, literally "Twilight Seibei") is a 2002 Japanese film written and directed by Yoji Yamada. It is the first film in Yamada's acclaimed Samurai Trilogy, along with The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor, all based on the stories of Shuhei Fujisawa.The story takes place in the mid-19th century, a few years before the Meiji Restoration, in a time of rapid change throughout Japan. Iguchi Seibei is a humble, low-ranking samurai and widower who must work several jobs to support his family after selling his sword and bankrupting himself to pay for his wife's lavish funeral. In this day and age, samurai have been reduced to petty bureaucrats and pencil-pushers. Seibei spends his days keeping track of the castle's dried cod. His colleagues nickname him "Twilight Seibei" for his habit of rushing home at the end of his shift rather than staying out with them to enjoy sake and geisha. At home, Seibei tills his own fields and assembles birdcages well into the night to support his two children.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })After Seibei gets castigated by the clan's lord for his dishevelled appearance, his wealthier uncle decides to arrange a marriage for Seibei to ease his domestic burdens. Seibe refuses to marry just to receive a servant, and instead prefers to marry a woman who will share his love for his daughters. When Seibei's old friend Iinuma Michinojo pays a visit from Edo, he learns that Iinuma's sister Tomoe, another childhood friend, has recently divorced her alcoholic husband Koda and now lives in shame. Seibei and Tomoe respark their old friendship, but their courtship is chaste. When a drunken Koda emerges and challenges Iinuma to a duel for the return of his estranged wife, Seibei steps in and accepts the challenge on Iinuma's behalf.It turns out that Seibei was once an instructor at a prestigious fencing school, and is quite a swordsman. He defeats Koda easily using only a wooden stick, leaving the man alive. When the clan elders hear of Seibei's skill, they quickly summon him to perform a task. Humble Seibei is reluctant to enter the dangerous world of clan politics, but he has no choice. The elders charge him with executing Yogo Zen'emon, a powerful warrior who has refused an imperial order to commit seppuku. Seibei meets with Yogo Zen'emon, and the two share a heartfelt conversation about having lost their families. However, when Seibei reveals that he does not own a sword, and intended on fighting Yogo with his wakizashi, Yogo is enraged and attacks him. Seibei defeats the warrior and returns home alive. He reunites with Tomoe and the two are married.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The film is narrated by Seibei's younger daughter Ito, her own old age drawing near, in what is presumably the Taishō period.At the 76th Academy Awards, The Twilight Samurai was nominated for (but lost) the award for Best Foreign Language Film. It also won an unprecedented twelve Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. | |
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Cherry Tapping - Seibei's duel with Koda. | |
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Katanas Are Just Better | |
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Katanas Are Just Better - Subverted. Seibei has sold his katana and must use a stick and a wakizashi to defeat two katana-wielding opponents. | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling | |
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Annoying Younger Sibling - Ito, Seibei's younger daughter, loves to make trouble for his elder daughter Kayano. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: According to Word of God, the movie is intended as a subversion. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance - Some might see this dynamic at play. More likely exploited, in that Tomoe already loved Seibei, and his defense of her honor merely gave her the pretext she needed to take a role in his, and his family's, life. A role, not coincidentally, fairly similar to that expected of a good House Wife of the time — of course, minus the sexual component. | |
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Relationship Upgrade | |
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Relationship Upgrade - Several, between Seibei and Tomoe, each of them hard-earned and at least a little bittersweet. The most crucial of them comes right at the end, off-screen, when Seibei and Tomoe finally become man and wife. Then, mere seconds later, we have the rug pulled out from under us when we learn Seibei died only two years later in the Boshin War. | |
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The Philosopher | |
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The Philosopher - Seibei is more of the quiet, contemplative variety. To some extent, Tomoe. Yogo Zen'emon. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Early in the film, narrator Ito mentions that the colleagues of her father, Seibei, derisively nickname him "Tasogare Seibei," which is "Twilight" appended to his name (Seibei). ("Tasogare Seibei" is also the Japanese title of the film.) The nickname pops up in the dialogue occasionally, although evidently it dies out after a panicked discussion among Seibei's coworkers when word gets out that Seibei defeated Captain Koda in a duel — using just a polished stick against Koda's katana. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better - Yogo Zen'emon is a far superior swordsman to Koda. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man - Tomoe, toward Seibei. Except Seibei sees himself as unworthy. | |
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End of an Age | |
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End of an Age - The time for samurai is over. Almost everyone seems to realize this. Seibei seems to think he'll become a farmer. | |
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Reluctant Warrior | |
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Reluctant Warrior - Seibei doesn't really like fighting, and has to be bullied into duelling Yogo. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic - Seibei. Tomoe. Yogo Zen'emon tries so hard to be one, but, in the end, fails. Then again, there's only so much suffering anyone can take. | |
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Childhood Friend Romance | |
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Childhood Friend Romance - Tomoe. (Or Seibei, depending on how you look at it.) | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World / World Half Empty - At least according to Yogo Zen'emon. (Not that he doesn't have good reason.) | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch - Arguably Iinuma's wife, at least at times. Not so much how she is as how we get to see her — namely, meddling. Possibly Seibei's late wife. Difficult to know, since we never see her alive and different people project different things on her. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun- Notice the small look Zen'emon gives the doorframe before the duel. Also the fact that Seibei is very good at using a short sword. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Carefully averted. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Oblivious to Love - Seibei, toward Tomoe. An unusual case, in that it's not a question of his failing to pay attention. Rather, he's The Stoic, and he doesn't believe he's worthy of Tomoe's love. So it's easier for him to pretend that he and Tomoe are Just Friends rather than reopen himself to another of his Tragic Dreams. | |
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My Master, Right or Wrong | |
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Zen'emon confess that he was one of these for a time. His failure shames him to this day, but not for the typical reasons. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: The point of the title, and a recurring theme throughout the movie. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love - Seibei gives a particularly heartbreaking one to Tomoe before he heads off to face Yogo. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Also, the adult Ito, in her role as the film's narrator. See also Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, above. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century - A recurring theme. Because the times are changing so quickly, there's a tremendous feeling of being out of place, although the more thoughtful characters are generally torn between feeling they were born too late and born too early. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy - Seibei. Yogo Zen'emon. Tomoe | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist | |
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Wide-Eyed Idealist - Iinuma. Also, the adult Ito, in her role as the film's narrator. See also Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, above. | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis - Inverted when Tomoe tells her ex-husband Captain Koda he's no longer on a First-Name Basis with her. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending - Ito reveals that after all he'd gone through for his happy ending, Seibei was killed only three years later in battle during the Boshin War. However, Ito insists that her father died a happy man. | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress - Tomoe. | |
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Heroes Gone Fishing - Seibei and Iinuma enjoy fishing together halfway through the film. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts - Especially when those you love have a nasty habit of dying. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason - Played with in various ways. | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Admittedly, Tomoe but she's an older and wiser Manic Pixie Dream Girl. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold - Yogo Zen'emon. | |
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Broken Ace | |
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Broken Ace - Zen'emon. For all his outward skill and confidence, he's ultimately a sad, broken man mourning his dead wife and child. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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All of the Other Reindeer - Seibei's coworkers. At least until they realize he Minored in Ass-Kicking. (Alas, after that ... somehow things got worse.) | |
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The Atoner | |
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The Atoner - Seibei feels he ruined his late wife's life, and possibly even brought about her death. That's one of the reasons he bankrupts himself and sells his family sword to pay for her lavish funeral. Iinuma, toward his younger sister Tomoe, for marrying her off to a powerful samurai who turned out to be a brutal drunk. | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years | |
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Wise Beyond Their Years - Seibei's daughters Kayano and Ito. Played up by the narration, which is by Ito looking back from the vantage of a middle-aged or elderly lady. Although Kayano is about ten and Ito is about five, they're aware of, worried about, and even occasionally engaged in, the serious problems facing their family. | |
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Narrator | |
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Narrator - Ito, Seibei's younger daughter, presumably from at least half a century after the main events of the film. Also, Yogo Zen'emon's regarding his late wife and daughter. | |
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Actual Pacifist | |
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Actual Pacifist - Seibei would like to be one, but his status (and skill) as a samurai makes this increasingly difficult. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
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Growing Up Sucks - Tomoe embarrasses Seibei by telling his daughters that Growing Up Sucks, especially if you're a girl — and especially if you're a tomboy in an era that expects you to be ladylike. (Nevertheless, Tomoe turned out okay.) | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_57efd4c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_57efd4c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_57efd4c4 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_5d414804 | type |
Just Friends | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_5d414804 | comment |
Just Friends - Seibei, toward Tomoe. See Oblivious to Love, below. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_5d414804 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_5d414804 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_5d414804 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_60b21fa3 | type |
The Lancer | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_60b21fa3 | comment |
The Lancer - Iinuma, Seibei's best friend. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_60b21fa3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_60b21fa3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_60b21fa3 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c | type |
Always Save the Girl | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c | comment |
Always Save the Girl - Wouldn't you save Tomoe if you had the chance? | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_64edb99c | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out - Seibei, toward Tomoe. Even when Iinuma gives him an ultimatum. Tomoe herself is an unusual example, or perhaps a subversion: she'd probably confess her feelings to Seibei immediately if that were a socially permissible thing for a woman to do in that time period. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_653c5c73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_653c5c73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_653c5c73 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom - In the opening seconds of the film, Seibei's daughters, Kayano and Ito, lose their mother to tuberculosis. Actually, because she had been so sick and so infectious, in a way they had already lost her three years earlier. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_66dfe36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_66dfe36a | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_690f4c53 | type |
Everything's Better with Samurai | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_690f4c53 | comment |
Everything's Better with Samurai - Except that these samurai are generally more like accountants. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_690f4c53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_690f4c53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_690f4c53 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide - Subverted with Yogo Zen'emon, who refuses to commit seppuku when the clan orders him to. Played straight with most of the other samurai and noblemen ordered to commit seppuku. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_6d332aea | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6ee10e0 | type |
My Greatest Failure | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6ee10e0 | comment |
My Greatest Failure - See The Atoner. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6ee10e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_6ee10e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_6ee10e0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7160b097 | type |
Dawn of an Era | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7160b097 | comment |
Dawn of an Era - The times they are a-changin'. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7160b097 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7160b097 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_7160b097 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_71fef6f7 | type |
Every Japanese Sword is a Katana | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_71fef6f7 | comment |
Every Japanese Sword is a Katana - Averted. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_71fef6f7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_71fef6f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_71fef6f7 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78410584 | type |
She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78410584 | comment |
She Is Not Going to Be My Wife - Played for humor at first but then more and more for pathos. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78410584 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78410584 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_78410584 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78629e9c | type |
Badass Pacifist | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78629e9c | comment |
Badass Pacifist - Seibei. Until events suck him in. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78629e9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_78629e9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_78629e9c | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7a2a34ef | type |
Not With the Safety On, You Won't | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7a2a34ef | comment |
Not With the Safety On, You Won't: One that doesn't involve firearms; when Zen'emon gets his katana stuck. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7a2a34ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7a2a34ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_7a2a34ef | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7e74d66f | type |
Politically Correct History | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7e74d66f | comment |
Politically Correct History - A lot of the characters seem way ahead of their time with regards to feminism, classism, and so on. Tomoe most of all. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7e74d66f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7e74d66f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_7e74d66f | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic - Tomoe's ex-husband Koda — a brutish example. Also Yogo Zen'emon, due to the loss of his family. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7eebe99c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_7eebe99c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_7eebe99c | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_80621707 | type |
Arranged Marriage | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage - This was virtually a given in that time and place and social stratum. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_80621707 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_80621707 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_80621707 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_82fc5bdf | type |
Bratty Half-Pint | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint - Ito, Seibei's younger daughter, at times. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_82fc5bdf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_82fc5bdf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_82fc5bdf | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2 | type |
Failure Knight | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2 | comment |
Failure Knight - Yogo Zen'emon, who is disowned by his new lord and mourning the deaths of his family. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_838366f2 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_85debad9 | type |
Plucky Girl | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_85debad9 | comment |
Plucky Girl - Tomoe. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_85debad9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_85debad9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_85debad9 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_863fac26 | type |
Jerk Jock | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_863fac26 | comment |
Jerk Jock - Captain Koda. Or at least the samurai equivalent. See Jerkass, above. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_863fac26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_863fac26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_863fac26 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8741b74 | type |
Playing with a Trope | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8741b74 | comment |
Played with earlier in the film, when Seibei uses a polished stick instead of a katana in his duel with Koda. Possibly a triple subversion considering how things end up. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8741b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8741b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_8741b74 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction - Of samurai movies. In particular, The Twilight Samurai attempts to debunk a lot of mythologizing and shows samurai as regular people with regular problems, just trying to go about their lives in a gritty and difficult world, rather than as superheroes ever eager for the next glorious battle or duel. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8ae880f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_8ae880f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_8ae880f7 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_91672d3e | type |
Children Are Innocent | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_91672d3e | comment |
Children Are Innocent - Yes, with some reservations. They're Wise Beyond Their Years, and they've had more than their fair share of suffering, but they're morally innocent. "We knew somehow, in our naive child hearts, something had happened between Father and Tomoe, but we could not bring ourselves to ask it." | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_91672d3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_91672d3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_91672d3e | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_950bbfa7 | type |
Take a Third Option | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option - Subverted during the final duel. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_950bbfa7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_950bbfa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_950bbfa7 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_967edd3a | type |
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_967edd3a | comment |
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene - Inverted: a samurai film dominated by quiet scenes but punctuated with the odd gritty action scene that serves mostly to heighten the intensity of those quiet scenes. Akira Kurosawa meets Chekhov, if you will. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_967edd3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_967edd3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_967edd3a | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9b0f37de | type |
Contemplate Our Navels | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9b0f37de | comment |
Contemplate Our Navels - When Seibei meets Yogo Zen'emon in Yogo's house, before their final duel. Seibei is just there to do his job, and his job happens to be to kill Yogo. Yogo wants answers before he dies. But whether there are answers to his questions — aside from trite ones along the lines of "well, life isn't fair" — is open to debate. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9b0f37de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9b0f37de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_9b0f37de | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9c6ba43a | type |
Values Dissonance | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9c6ba43a | comment |
Values Dissonance - In-universe example, between the old ways and the new ways. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9c6ba43a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9c6ba43a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_9c6ba43a | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9f5df7a6 | type |
Geisha | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9f5df7a6 | comment |
Geisha: Seibei's coworkers hang out with them. (Chaste Hero Seibei does not.) | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9f5df7a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_9f5df7a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_9f5df7a6 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a1e4de7 | type |
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a1e4de7 | comment |
Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight: Implied. Seibei is an expert swordsman but swords are pointless when the Meiji army has rifles. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a1e4de7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a1e4de7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_a1e4de7 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a2492aff | type |
Dogged Nice Guy | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a2492aff | comment |
Dogged Nice Guy - Tomoe. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a2492aff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a2492aff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_a2492aff | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a754fa9a | type |
Instant Death Bullet | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a754fa9a | comment |
Instant Death Sword - According to Word of God, it was intended as a subversion. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a754fa9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a754fa9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_a754fa9a | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a9eb984b | type |
Warrior Poet | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a9eb984b | comment |
Warrior Poet - Seibei. Except he'd really rather not be a warrior-anything. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a9eb984b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_a9eb984b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_a9eb984b | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_aabe2fb | comment |
Deliberate Values Dissonance - A little. It is a different time, after all. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_aabe2fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_aabe2fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_aabe2fb | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ab9311f0 | type |
Closer to Earth | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ab9311f0 | comment |
Closer to Earth - How Seibei views his late wife but she's arguably a subversion, if we're to go by Tomoe. Tomoe herself might be an example played straight. An even more straightforward example would be Iinuma and his wife. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ab9311f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ab9311f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_ab9311f0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_abe4d7b | type |
Blue Blood | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_abe4d7b | comment |
Daimyo: Two of them. Early in the film, Seibei embarrasses himself in front of the really nice young daimyo running his clan. Later, after the young man dies and an internal rift nearly tears apart the clan, he's summoned to meet the much more vicious successor. Although Seibei was lucky enough to get away with a (mild) reprimand. His superior points out that if it had been the daimyo's father, he would have probably been forced to commit seppuku. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_abe4d7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_abe4d7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_abe4d7b | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b04fdcc4 | type |
Loners Are Freaks | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b04fdcc4 | comment |
Loners Are Freaks - How Seibei's coworkers view him; in fact, that's what the movie's title refers to. Subverted: Seibei is very grounded; he just values time with his children over time with his coworkers and the possibility of advancement. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b04fdcc4 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b04fdcc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b04fdcc4 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0a529cb | type |
Extreme Doormat | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0a529cb | comment |
Extreme Doormat - Cleverly subverted with Tomoe. She can be tough as nails when she has to be, and in some ways she's the most recognizably "modern" major character in the whole movie. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0a529cb | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0a529cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b0a529cb | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0bce7aa | type |
Selective Obliviousness | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0bce7aa | comment |
Selective Obliviousness - Seibei. See Oblivious to Love, above. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0bce7aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b0bce7aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b0bce7aa | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b2f26025 | type |
Genki Girl | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl - Tomoe was almost definitely a Genki Girl as a child and probably into her teen years. Even now, her character retains genki aspects, although she's sadder and much wiser now. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b2f26025 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b2f26025 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b2f26025 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
The Ace - Yogo Zen'emon, a pleasant, affable Master Swordsman. Unfortunately, we later learn that he's something of a Broken Ace. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5b4b077 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5b4b077 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b5b4b077 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5c562be | type |
Face Framed in Shadow | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5c562be | comment |
Face Framed in Shadow: Yogo Zen'emon, all the time. The only time when he appears in a sunlight he's only visible from the back. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5c562be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b5c562be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b5c562be | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b61b755f | type |
Tomboy | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b61b755f | comment |
Tomboy - Tomoe, when she was a child. She indicates this in the scene where she teases Seibei (and also, subtly, flirts with him) by telling his daughters Kayano and Ito right in front of him how awful it is to be a girl, and how sad she was when she reached Kayano's age and had to give up climbing trees and playing with boys and exchange it for being ladylike and learning to sew kimono. In spite of her faintly mocking tone, she's clearly serious. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b61b755f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b61b755f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b61b755f | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: An Averted Trope: for the most part, the samurai are bureaucrats. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b7c53a22 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_b7c53a22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_b7c53a22 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bcbf7aef | type |
Plucky Comic Relief | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bcbf7aef | comment |
Plucky Comic Relief - Seibei's friend Iinuma. Seibei's daughters, Kayano and Ito. Also his servants, although they tend to vanish into the background on first viewing. And his boss. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bcbf7aef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bcbf7aef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_bcbf7aef | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bdf2a460 | type |
Tragic Dream | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bdf2a460 | comment |
Tragic Dream - Seibei is filled with them. Some of them come true, but never in the manner he had hoped. See also Yank the Dog's Chain, below. The same is true for Tomoe. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bdf2a460 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_bdf2a460 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_bdf2a460 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c091ce5f | type |
Samurai | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c091ce5f | comment |
Samurai - Except for a few servants, peasants, villagers, and nobleman — none of them major characters — all the males in the film are samurai but the vast majority of them are bureaucrats more than soldiers. | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c091ce5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c091ce5f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Samurai | hasFeature |
The Twilight Samurai / int_c091ce5f | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c12edb15 | type |
Christmas Cake | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c12edb15 | comment |
Christmas Cake: An Averted Trope. Presumably Tomoe must be at least in her mid-to-late twenties by the time the film opens, since she seems to have gotten married not that long after Seibei, and Seibei's older daughter Kayano is about ten, meaning Tomoe was presumably married for eleven years or more. And Tomoe has another strike against her: she's a "returned bride" (i.e., divorced). Nevertheless, Tomoe's brother Iinuma is fighting off suitors left and right. Or at least, he fends them off until he offers Seibei a chance. (Seibei blows it.) | |
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Subverted Trope | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c145f69b | comment |
Subverted with Yogo Zen'emon, when the new daimyo of his clan orders him to commit seppuku, but Yogo refuses on the grounds that he was just following the orders of his master. | |
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Chaste Hero | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c209fc7 | comment |
Chaste Hero - Seibei. He avoids the geishas his coworkers hang out with, and he refuses to consider remarrying. Or at least he puts on a brave face until he's confronted with the likelihood of his own proximate death — and simultaneously presented with his chance to redeem his family from financial ruin. Then he wastes no time proposing to Tomoe in an anguishing and Anguished Declaration of Love. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm - Seibei. But, to everyone's consternation, he'd prefer not to be a badass. | |
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Keigo | |
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Keigo | |
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Rōnin | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c3b32bf1 | comment |
Rōnin - None seen onscreen, but Iinuma complains about their rude and violent behavior in Edo. Part of the theme of how the times are changing; no one really needs samurai anymore. Zen'emon confess that he was one of these for a time. His failure shames him to this day, but not for the typical reasons. | |
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Hope Spot | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot - Implied in the seconds between when we learn Seibei married Tomoe and when we learn he died soon after in the Boshin War. In the final dual, Yogo Zen'emon has a more standard one. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: Several including the ending itself. This is also the entire life of Yogo Zen'emon. | |
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| The Twilight Samurai / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy - Seibei. Also Iinuma. Tomoe, even though she is not a guy. | |
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Seppuku | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_c78d3e08 | comment |
Seppuku - Discussed on occasion. Some occurs, but way offscreen, to characters we know nothing about. See also Honor Before Reason and Driven to Suicide. Subverted with Yogo Zen'emon, when the new daimyo of his clan orders him to commit seppuku, but Yogo refuses on the grounds that he was just following the orders of his master. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain - Yogo Zen'emon isn't remotely evil, just grief-stricken over his family's death and none too keen on the idea of seppuku. Seibei even offers to let him escape rather than fight. | |
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Yamato Nadeshiko | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_d3427b48 | comment |
Yamato Nadeshiko: Discussed by Tomoe with Seibei's daughters: women are supposed to be lady-like and sew and are not supposed to climb trees. This does not mean 'doormat' as Tomoe herself left a bad husband rather than stay there and exploits his return to net herself a better one. | |
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Puppy Love | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_daa59ba1 | comment |
Puppy Love - In-universe; it's not seen onscreen, but this is how Tomoe speaks of her childhood friendship with Seibei. (This scene doubles as present-day Ship Tease, as Tomoe embarrasses Seibei in front of his daughters but in doing so begins to draw him out of his shell.) | |
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Try Not to Die | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_daa710c8 | comment |
Try Not to Die - A non-flippant version when Tomoe is almost too choked up to bid farewell to Seibei as he leaves for his final duel against Yogo Zen'emon. Possibly just a rare example played for drama rather than laughs. | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss | |
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Pointy-Haired Boss - Played with. Ultimately, his immediate superior in the clan turns out to be a decent guy. | |
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Ship Tease | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: Between Seibei and Tomoe. | |
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Childhood Marriage Promise | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e195807e | comment |
Childhood Marriage Promise - Not stated outright, but hinted at. At any rate, from his childhood, Seibei dreamed of marrying Tomoe, and somehow that dream didn't truly die even after they each got married to other people. | |
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The Ditz | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz - Iinuma isn't stupid. He just acts like it. Sometimes. One of Seibei's servants is illiterate, slow, forgetful, and quite possibly mildly retarded. He's also earnest, sweet, hard-working, and kind of adorable. May be more an example of The Fool. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay - One of Seibei's coworkers. | |
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The Fool | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e3d2f2 | comment |
The Fool: See The Ditz. above. | |
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The Hero | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e49686 | comment |
The Hero - Seibei is the protagonist. | |
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| The Twilight Samurai / int_e5466866 | type |
Ojou | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e5466866 | comment |
If you listen to the dialogue, both Seibei's daughters are addressed as the Ojou because they are of the Samurai class. In practice though, they are just ordinary little girls. | |
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Minored in Ass-Kicking | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e628546f | comment |
Minored in Ass-Kicking - Seibei is a bookkeeper and a master of the shortsword on the side. | |
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Wooden Katanas Are Even Better | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_e8b656fc | comment |
Wooden Katanas Are Even Better - Subverted when Yogo Zen'emon learns Seibei's katana is made of wood and decides Seibei is not taking him seriously. You should always take Yogo Zen'emon seriously. Always. Played with earlier in the film, when Seibei uses a polished stick instead of a katana in his duel with Koda. Possibly a triple subversion considering how things end up. | |
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Period Piece | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_eab212a8 | comment |
Period Piece | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
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Shrinking Violet - Seibei is no coward, but he has difficulty opening up. | |
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Jerkass | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass - The most straightforward example is Tomoe's ex-husband, Captain Koda. | |
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Jidaigeki | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ed358a04 | comment |
Jidaigeki - Set during the Edo Period | |
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Martial Pacifist | |
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Martial Pacifist - Seibei. Or at least, Seibei as a young man, before he settled down, got married, had kids. | |
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Two-Teacher School | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_edce12ef | comment |
Two-Teacher School - One-teacher school, in fact. Justified in that it's a village schoolhouse with barely a dozen students. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending - Whatever happiness Seibei gets, he certainly earns it. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_f8600b | comment |
Tomoe is a doting substitute parent — crossed with a Cool Big Sis. By the end of the film, we learn from the narrator, she has also been a doting stepparent. | |
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My Sister Is Off-Limits | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_fb56b948 | comment |
My Sister Is Off-Limits - One of Seibei's concerns, regarding Tomoe, who is the younger sister of his best friend Iinuma. A Subverted Trope in that Iinuma himself would love to see them together. (See also The Atoner.) | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones - Seibei. | |
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Doting Parent | |
| The Twilight Samurai / int_ff251a68 | comment |
Doting Parent - Seibei. Which makes him a freak as far as everyone else is concerned. Everyone, that is, until his unlucky childhood friend Tomoe makes her return. Tomoe is a doting substitute parent — crossed with a Cool Big Sis. By the end of the film, we learn from the narrator, she has also been a doting stepparent. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty - Not truly poverty (not for Seibei, at least, although upstream the peasants have been literally starving after a disastrous crop failure). Seibe's family has food, servants, a home, a yard, animals. But they're forever broke, and deep in debt, and Seibei seems to work so much one wonders when (or if) he sleeps. | |
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