The title and setting of this film might suggest a two hour helping of superhuman swordplay, cheesy bravado-laden dialogue and blood-soaked violence; if that’s the only kind of samurai film that floats your boat you might as well stop reading now. The Twilight Samurai is a remarkably touching and tender take on the life of the samurai during the twilight years of their culture during the middle of the 1800s from veteran director Yoji Yamada.
A follow-up to the outstanding but commercially unsuccessful album Spiritual Machines, Our Lady Peace’s Gravity proved to be a relative hit that gave the band the recogition that was closer to what they had deserved for so long. It won them many new fans but at the same time alienated others - maybe it was the departure of Mike Turner, or the hiring of Bob Rock instead of Mike Lanni as producer, or it could have merely been a planned change of direction on the part of the band themselves. Whatever the reason, it’s a marked departure from the quirky alt-rock of their earlier days.
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