The Last Samurai

Last Samurai! “Samurai” means “to serve”, to serve your lord, to serve your country, to protect your religion and the traditions. In the middle age, the Samurai’s where the protector of the Japan kingdom, but time went by and the world got modernized. The Royal King decided to reorganize the whole army with the help of the British and the France colonies, he wants to modernize the army with guns and big, but what about the Samurai’s, what about them, are they good enough. This is when that war Boshin War where Samurai’s fight with there own nations army. The movie was based on Jules Brunet’s story about how he got to The Empire of Japan to help the king with the modernization of his army. The story starts when high ranked Captain Nathan Algren ( Tom Cruise ) is sent to Japan to train the new army with the newest weapons equipped which was brought from Europe. The army is force to early in the battle and this way they lose the battle with the Samurai’s, but Nathan manages to kill a samurai, this way he is taken as a hostage to the Samurai’s hidden village, to the family which father he kill in the battle. After he recovers from his wounds, he has to remain there. He will learn how to use the katana, means sword in Japan, he has a real hard time living with them, but with time he will learn the main things about Samurai’s. The Samurai’s leader Katsumoto ( Ken Watanabe ) is arrested, but Algren goes to rescues him. During the rescue, Nobutada ( Shin Koyamada ), Katsumoto’s son, is killed. A force of swordsmen and warriors is set up and Algren receives a katana of his own. He is also receives the armor of the samurai he killed, by Taka ( Koyuki ). The samurai plan, with the assistance of Algren, is to make their final battle and the battle starts. What kind of world is this? We are fighting for nothing, does is matter so much? What about peace!?


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