The Twilight Samurai (2002)

Both have the same director and are about low ranking samurai who deal with love, impending poverty, and honour.

It's part of the same trilogy and deals with the same troubles of poor insignificant samurai during the waning years of the class hegemony. I'd also recommend "Love and Honour" with KimuTaku, the third in the trilogy.

Both movies are fabulous and a masterful storytelling. Both movies tells a story about a Samurai, who can no longer be bothered with "pride" and "honor" as long as his family survives. This is a must see film. If you like this one, you definitely will like The Twilight Samurai and vice versa.

Set in different periods, both movies express the hardships a low ranked samurai faces in daily life, and both of them show the meaning of honour in "samurai's way" with (in Twilight Samurai's case) less action but in a sorrowful way.

Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

'The Twilight Samurai' has a much more more quiet and sombre mood in comparison to 'Kakekomi,' which although has a similar aesthetic, is also light-hearted at times. Both films are set in the edo-period, and present men and women in an exceptionally interesting way, considering how most Japanese films portray and convey ideas in regards to gender roles (though Twilight Samurai is more subtle in this). 'The Twilight Samurai' is probably still a bit on the traditional side.

Poor samurai with bamboo katana intense sword fighting scene. Set in feudal Japan, good acting and story