My First Time Watching The Last Samurai!!

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  @ColetteCherry · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @sayiansweet · 2 years ago

  Fun Fact for those who don&apos;t know. Hiroyuki Sanada (The actor playing Ujio) had a stunt performance with Tom Cruise to safely strike at his neck during his first day of capture. &nbsp;Tom Cruise wanted to make it authentic, and convinced the producers and Hirouki Sanada to swing at his neck with an actual katana. &nbsp;Hiroyuki is a master in his field for sword and martial training and agreed to the terms being a dare devil himself. <br> <br>When Hiroyuki swung the sword at Tom Cruise&apos;s neck, he did stop on queue, but not soon enough to were he clipped the side of Tom&apos;s neck causing a bleed (the blood on Tom&apos;s neck was in fact his own blood). &nbsp;What amazed Hiroyuki during this dangerous stunt, was that during the swing and after contact was made with Tom Cruise&apos;s neck is that TOM never flinched, completely staying in character the whole time. &nbsp;This stunt performance was put into the film uncut.

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  @BrotherAzrael · 2 years ago (edited)

  General Hasegawa did not betray the samurai, he simply chose to serve the Emperor over joining Katsumoto&apos;s rebellion. Both parties were still samurai, and in a way Katsumoto still served the Emperor because he believed he didn&apos;t fight the Emperor but the foreign invaders trying to change the way of Japan. It&apos;s complicated politics.

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  @Shintigercurl · 2 years ago (edited)

  a lot of people think this movie is a white savior movie. nope. algern didn&apos;t save the samurai. the samurai saved him.

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  @krono5el · 2 years ago

  while i liked gladiator, troy, kingdom of heaven, and alexander, the Last Samurai was the one that really hit me like Braveheart. total masterclass in everything from production to acting.

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  @TheWarriorPitbull · 2 years ago

  One of my favorite elements to this movie is Katsumoto mentioning to Nathan that one can spend a lifetime looking for the perfect blossom and it would not be a wasted life; and then in the end he sees them falling and realizes that &apos;they are all perfect&apos;.

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  @aasillak · 2 years ago

  The Last Samurai would have done so well if it wasn’t released so close to LOTR:ROTK. Such a great movie. One of the best from Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe.

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  @j.j..jurado1429 · 2 years ago

  The &quot;Shogun&quot; series has a deeper explanation of Japanese politeness

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  @ComradeChernov · 2 years ago

  Katsumoto&apos;s actor is Ken Watanabe. He steals the show in every single movie he&apos;s in. He was FANTASTIC in the WWII film Letters from Iwo Jima.

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  @baknights14 · 1 year ago

  Fun fact: there have been only around 9 foreigners that have been given the honor of being named samurai. One of them was a Englishman named William Adams in 1600. He was the first englishman to sail to Japan, he then became a close advisor to the first Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was granted the status of Hatamoto(Banner man) and was given the samurai name Miura Anjin (The Pilot of Miura). He even married a Japanese woman, He stayed in Japan until his death in 1620. He was the basis of the Character John Blackthorne in James Clavell&apos;s book Shōgun, as well as the 1980 tv movie, and 2024 series. He is also my 15th Maternal Great grandfather.

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  @-Knife- · 2 years ago

  This is one of my favorite movies of all time! This is a true masterpiece. So glad you discovered it.

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  @denfansteven4910 · 2 years ago

  I would highly recommend Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 🤔

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