The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Yoji Yamada's 2002 late-Edo samurai drama. Hiroyuki Sanada as widowed petty officer.
Actor: Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa played the childhood friend in The Twilight Samurai whose proposal the protagonist declines out of pride, and the film’s restraint depends on her. She was an enormously famous teenage idol in Japan before becoming a serious actress, and has won multiple Japanese Academy Awards.