An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. In Japan, Civil War veteran Captain Nathan Algren trains the Emperor's troops to use modern weapons as they prepare to defeat the last of the country's samurais. But Algren's passion is swayed when he is captured by the samurai and learns about their traditions and code of honor. This movie frustrates me endlessly. The Hollywood machine has been cranking out these cookie cutter historical dramas for the last 10 years now and while at first there was a freshness and a genuine quality to some of these early films (such as Braveheart, Dances with Wolves, even Gladiator), they have put out too many films in too short a time that are THE ESSENTIALLY SAME THING, differentiation occurring only in the setting of time and place.<br/><br/>Captured by enemy Japanese samurai, a US soldier who himself has witnessed the horrors of cultural manifest destiny comes to embrace the ways of the culture he was there to fight. Western boy meets world…Western Boy has inner conflict and must choose his allegiance…Western boy effuses emotion in a drawn-out, overacted 40 minute concluding sequence where people can take 40 bullets and still die slowly and in a touching way…Western boy becomes assimilated into new culture and lives happily ever after. Basically, western culture and history are slammed repeatedly by producers who concurrently make their living off of western commercialism in western theaters from hordes of western cola-drinking sheep.<br/><br/>The problem is that this movie looks really good artistically. They had a huge budget to get a good cast, beautiful scenes, and good action choreography. Yet they graft the same "makes you think" plot as Kingdom of Heaven, Dances with Wolves, Last of the Mohicans, etc. onto it - there's nothing original here! The only movie that uses more clichés than the Last Samurai has got to be Hidalgo. Its title brings me in a new sense, whenever I recall it The Last Samurai. When I went through the description at the back of the DVD case, to me, it was a foreign solider torn apart two worlds: Modern Japan and its traditional counterparts. Now the most interesting factor holistically is that the foreign-born military officer gets to know about the traditional flavour whereas Japan's own people do fail to identify it. My recent cram for the exam reminded how Japan switched into an open-foreign policy from a close-foreign policy during Meiji's ruling. However history records indicate Meiji continued with the Samurai backing. And I quite well remember how the Samurais were described under Meiji rule; they had reputation but no wealth because they loved their tradition. May be the Meiji's officials wanted a Samurai-free reign open to foreign policies. The Emperor must have been a cat's paw in this phenomenon hence so shown in the film. He is shown as somebody like a protégé of his council. When the Samurai chief approaches him for the help in presence of the council, he remains silent. But alone he renders a great helping hand to the Samurai chief by reappointing him to the council. The movie's irony is perhaps the war that happens between two peoples of a same tribe. But it reaches a crescendo when Kotsubo, the Samurai chief and the last Samurai breathes his last giving in to the enemies, his fellow people. The incessant release of skirmishers against Samurais keeps the Japanese Army General warm. He begins feeling his heart the Japan. He suddenly commands the halt of the firing ignoring his superior's presence. When the Last Samurai breathes his last, the whole Japanese Army kisses the earth in respect of their fellow rival. This scene is followed by the signing of the agreement between US and Japan on free trade policies. However the scene is interrupted by the foreign military official's visit to the Emperor. He is here to hand over the last Samurai's sword to the Emperor. The irony here again is that it is a foreign official who leads the Emperor to trace his traditional ways and means. With receiving the sword, the Emperor becomes sentimental; he realises the futility, or perhaps the danger of maintaining the foreign relations. The Emperor remains almost silent all along the film, and begins his oratory consequently abolishing the treaty signed between US and Japan. Nathan Algren is American but Japanese in heart. Omuro is Japanese but American in deed. The encounter between Taka and Nathan is also charming. The relationship so grows gradually along with the movie itself. The relationship reaches a kind of climax with a light oral kissing. Apart from this, the bond is always shown on facial expressions. Taka's richness in her facial expressions of her feelings towards the foreign-born is really amazing. And what caught me very much is a line in Captain's journal that from the moment they wake, the Japanese devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. Captain's words pervade the film and the Japan's history on the practical end. There is not a single moment they are seen just gossiping around; all the time they are busy: men with their fights, women with their household chores. So above all, the film is so inspiring. A rousing tale that combines high adventure with emotional effectiveness. This movie works because it never loses sight of the characters no matter how epic the scope becomes. Captain Nathan Algren (<a href="/name/nm0000129/">Tom Cruise</a>), a disillusioned American war hero who fought alongside General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, is hired to train the Emperor of Japan's troops to use firearms against an uprising of Imperial warriors led by the "last samurai" leader Katsumoto Morito (<a href="/name/nm0913822/">Ken Watanabe</a>). After being captured, nursed back to health, and trained to fight like a samurai, Algren must decide just whose side he is on. The Last Samurai is based on a screenplay by American screenwriter John Logan, filmmaker Edward Zwick (who also directed and co-produced the movie), and co-producer Marshall Herskovitz. The film was inspired by an earlier film, also titled <a href="/title/tt0099987/">The Last Samurai (1988)</a> (1991), although the stories are not related to each other. The movie begins in 1876 and spans one year of time. Although no attempt at historical accuracy is made, the story was inspired by several real events. The basic story, that of a samurai rebellion against the Imperial Japanese government, was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion during which samurai in the Satsuma domain in Tokugawa Japan revolted against the new Meiji government. Algren's involvement was inspired by stories of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside the Tokugawas in the earlier Boshin War [1868-1869]. Katsumoto spared Algren partly because of his fighting skill but also because he had seen in a vision the crouching tiger that Algren displayed on the banner hanging from his spear. Sake or saké (pronounced "sah-key") is a type of rice-based alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin. Sometimes referred to as "rice wine", sake is actually brewed more like a beer and has a higher alcohol content (like from 18% to 20%) than mirin (sweet rice wine). Traditional sake is served at a temperature of 98.4°F. Capt. Algren was a veteran of the US Army's famed 7th Cavalry during both the civil war (1861-1865) and the Indian wars in the western territories after the war. As an experienced cavalry officer, he was proficient with using firearms and sabers while mounted on horseback though did not take part in the infamous Battle of The Little Bighorn of 4 July 1876 due to his assignment to train the emperor's army in Japan in 1876. Therefore, having been invited by the emperor to Japan basically kept Algren out of the battle, saving his life so to speak. Although firearms had been in use centuries earlier in Japan, they were later rejected as dishonorable. By the early 19th century, the gunsmith's art had fallen into disuse. However, both sides did use firearms in the Boshin War and the Satsuma Rebellion. There are no accounts of ninjas being used by the Meiji government during the Satsuma Rebellion. In fact, it is highly unlikely if they even existed by 1877. The last known use of ninjas in warfare was during the Shimabara Rebellion [1637-1638] during the Edo period, which was 240 years before the Satsuma Rebellion took place. The samurai do well in the first round of the battle but, when the second and third regiments come, they are no match for the Gatling guns. The entire Samurai army is destroyed. Mortally wounded, Katsumoto asks Algren to help him die with honor, so Algren assists him with performing seppuku. At the death of Katsumoto, the entire Imperial army fall to their knees and bow before the fallen samurai. Only Algren survives. Later, as the Emperor (<a href="/name/nm1258003/">Shichinosuke Nakamura</a>) is about to sign the treaty between the Americans and the Japanese, a badly-injured Algren appears before the court and offers Katsumoto's sword to the Emperor in hopes that he will remember all that his ancestors have done. The Emperor accepts the sword and rules that this treaty is not in the best interest of his people. When Omura (<a href="/name/nm0361735/">Masato Harada</a>) protests, the Emperor informs him that he has decided to confiscate Omura's family's assets and make of them a gift to the people. He offers Katsuomoto's sword to Omura should he not be able to live with the disgrace, but Omura bows and backs away. The final scenes show Algren returning to Katsumoto's village and to Taka (<a href="/name/nm0468746/">Koyuki</a>) and her sons. In a voiceover, Simon Graham (<a href="/name/nm0001758/">Timothy Spall</a>) says: And so the days of the samurai had ended. Nations, like men, it is sometimes said, have their own destiny. As to the American captain, no one knows what became of him. Some say he died of his wounds, others that he returned to his own country, but I like to think he may have, at least, found some small measure of peace that we all seek and few of us ever find. Although he's been taught some Samurai swordplay, Algren is not Samurai. There is some confusion among viewers because of the fact that the word "samurai" is both a singular word and a plural word. In the singular, samurai can refer to a specific individual, as "Katsumoto is a Samurai." In the plural, samurai can refer to Samurai warriors in the collective, as "Katsumoto is Samurai" or "Katsumoto's Samurai." Therefore, it can be argued that the "Last Samurai" can refer either to Katsumoto himself, to his Samurai army, or to the last of the real Japanese Samurai. In the bonus section on the DVD, the director explains that the title refers to the Samurai as a race or class of people. The whole movie, in fact, is based on the end of the Samurai culture and the emergence of a new way of life in Japan, based on western ideals. The Last Samurai is often compared to <a href="/title/tt0099348/">Dances with Wolves (1990)</a> (1990) and <a href="/title/tt0066049/">A Man Called Horse (1970)</a> (1970) for the storyline, although both of these two movies deal with Native American Indians, not Japanese samurai. If it's similar samurai movies you want, try the TV miniseries <a href="/title/tt0080274/">Shogun (1980)</a> (1980) or Akira Kurosawa's <a href="/title/tt0047478/">Shichinin no samurai (1954)</a> (Seven Samurai) (1954). The classic epic <a href="/title/tt0056172/">Lawrence of Arabia (1962)</a> (1962) is another film with a story about East meeting West, a westerner bonding with a group of "natives" that he joins up with, and is critical of westernization becoming intrusive to foreign societies/cultures. a5c7b9f00b Final Justice in tamil pdf downloadFlying Fists full movie in hindi free download23-61 tamil dubbed movie torrentdownload full movie Gang Girls 2000 in hindithe The Bourne Ultimatum full movie in hindi free downloadJudge Minty hd mp4 downloadTulsa full movie download mp4Mockside 2.0 720p moviesthe Real Problems full movie download in hindiCatwoman full movie in hindi free download mp4
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