The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]

The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]
by Edward Zwick

The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Billy Connolly, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall, Tom Cruise, Tony Goldwyn
Director: Edward Zwick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Tom Cruise
Cinematographer: John Toll
Producer: Edward Zwick
Writer: Edward Zwick
Editor: Steven Rosenblum
Producer: Marshall Herskovitz
Writer: Marshall Herskovitz
Producer: Paula Wagner
Producer: Scott Kroopf
Producer: Tom Engelman
Producer: Ted Field
Producer: Richard Solomon
Producer: Vincent Ward
Producer: Charles Mulvehill
Writer: John Logan
Blu-ray: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 154 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 110809
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Epic Action Drama. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policie

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Movie Review: One of my favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this movie. There are few movies I can watch over and over. This would be one. I am a fan of Tom Cruise but not a fanatic fan. He is a very nice looking man and can act fairly well. But I don't see any Oscars in his future. That being said, I have enjoyed many of his films and look forward to many more. I think he did a wonderful performance in this picture, however, even if he weren't in the picture, it could have stood on its own. Ken Watanabe is a superb actor, not to mention a very sexy man who played Katsumoto. Other actors of note include: Hiroyuki Sanada who played Ujio and might I add another hunk of burning love; Shin Koyamada, who played Nobutada, Katsumto's son and Tom Cruise's first Japanese friend and Maisha Khan, who played Taka, Katsumto's widowed sister and mother of two young boys and Tom Cruise's love interest. As a little twist to the story, Tom had killed her husband in battle early in the movie, thus complicating her initial feelings for him.

The movie is epic albeit predictable throughout and the ending is a semi-tearjerker. But that's okay. You won't feel slighted and you will find yourself wanting to watch it again and again despite knowing the ending. It is semi-family safe, no nudity that I can recall, maybe some mild curse words, but nothing that is over the top. I watched it with my family. But one word of caution: it is very, very violent. Decapitations, amputations, other bodily mutilations during the battle scenes; these are samurai with very, very sharp swords and they used them very effectively. So remove all small children and those with queasy stomachs from the room before viewing.

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Summary of The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]

Epic Action Drama. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him.

While Japan undergoes tumultuous transition to a more Westernized society in 1876-77, The Last Samurai gives epic sweep to an intimate story of cultures at a crossroads. In America, tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is coerced by a mercenary officer (Tony Goldwyn) to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this "progress" is a rebellion of samurai warriors, holding fast to their traditions of honor despite strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader (Ken Watanabe), Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's honor to the ultimate test. All of which makes director Edward Zwick's noble epic eminently worthwhile, even if its Hollywood trappings (including an all-too-conventional ending) prevent it from being the masterpiece that Zwick and screenwriter John Logan clearly wanted it to be. Instead, The Last Samurai is an elegant mainstream adventure, impressive in all aspects of its production. It may not engage the emotions as effectively as Logan's script for Gladiator, but like Cruise's character, it finds its own quality of honor. --Jeff Shannon

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