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Agreed. I may not agree with her every opinion, like immediately assuming the samurai were attackin a innocent tiger instead of possibly defendin themselves and/or loved ones from a maneater, but I do admire and respect honesty. I find nothin but, here.

Exactly, thats whats fun about those reactions

Hey I miss youre reactions. Hope the new job is going well

I also agree with you....but Also believe one of his best portrayed works was " Knight & Day"....he was so good...and funny in this role!

Ken Watanabe got robbed too. Big time.

Definitely his best performance!

​@@nont18411I always was agree about tom cruse losing a oscar on this movie.. But Ken was different.. This role really suit him! Amaizing performance

That movie came out the same year as return of the king. Only reason why.

I AGREE!!!!

Personally is wish they hadnt kissed and just kept the intimacy of the dressing.

@@russellward4624 I actually agree it would have been much stronger with no kiss.

@@russellward4624 I understand that but it was a very small, gentle kiss. Imagine if it had been the passionate, full of lust kind of thing a lot of movies have when two character can't hold back any longer. That would have been bad.

@@darkphoenix2 it's a minor gripe. I think to go from her husband dying to kissing the guy that killed him 3 or 4 months later seems a bit quick to me.

Hanami 🌺

Sanada-san is absolutely amazing. He's obviously done a lot of work in the west recently that is fantastic, but if you'd like to see him in a quieter movie but genuinely awesome - I cannot more highly recommend "The Twilight Samurai". I promise that he doesn't sparkle...

It's an odd choice since even within the film they are not the last. It is mentioned that they want to eliminate them to prevent other samurai from rebelling. Something like "Last of the samurai" may have been a better choice.

​@kroanosm617 it's not because samurai isn't a singular word. Japanese doesn't have plural words. Tooth is the same no matter how many you are referring to and samurai is the same. This a westerners misaplication of English language standards to non English words. The last samurai refers to the time of the samurai ending not an individual being the last.

@@russellward4624 Yes, but in English it doesn't make sense. Plural or not the title would imply that it's the actual last person or persons of the samurai which it was not. It was the end of the samurai era. So "The end of samurai" or something like that makes more sense.

@kroanosm617 but it's not in English. That's the point. It's a Japanese word not English.

@@russellward4624 You're not listening. It doesn't matter. Either way it doesn't make sense because they were not the last. The closet translation is "The Last Warrior/s". The end of the samurai way, That makes sense. The last era of the samurai, makes sense.

On vowels and consonants, indeed Japan doesn't have an alphabet but a syllabary! Google a "hiragana" table, you'll see the structure is very cool. 5 vowels sounds and 10 consonants (K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W) forming to make pairs, e.g. [A, I, U, E, O], [KA, KI, KU, KE, KO]. There are some exceptions, and you can turn some consonants into similar consonants (K>G, S>Z, T>D, H>B/P), and also use the Y syllables to extend others (e.g. KO into KYO, like Tokyo). And you can add an "N" sound to the end of any of them. And that's it! The beautiful thing is that once you learn these sounds and structure, you can never mispronounce Japanese words - they all follow the same pattern! Oh and no "L" consonant of course, L doesn't exist naturally in Japanese so when foreign loan words and names contain an L they use an R instead. So yeah Algren is tricky in Japanese, "A-RU-GA-RE-N"

it is a good movie but 1 thing i dislike is the way the movie portrayed a samurai. the katana is not the primary weapon and they do use firearms even during the unification period

​@@sektaba, Yes. In reality, Japanese armies have been using firearms since the 17th century. The Portuguese were the first to introduce firearms to Japan. The director, here, was trying to emphasize the difference between Western modernism and the rich Japanese culture. Hence the historical inadvertence. The Battle of Sekigahara is a great example of Japanese armies using firearms, three centuries before the actions referenced in the film.

@@UmbraFulgur creative artistry from the director? the movie "Kingdom Of Heaven" deviated so much from real historical facts that i view it as propaganda movie. i get that movies should be considered "inspired by real people and events" not real history, but then hollywood had to come up with "the woman king" that the actors have to defend the movie lol

>Japan was isolated to the external world and more than a country, a collection of feudal territories (shogunates) with an emperor who was only a symbolic figure when Commodore Perry from the US forced Japan to open to the world This isn't quite accurate. First of all, regional fiefdoms in Japan were not shogunates, as "shogun" was a singular title for the highest-ranking samurai in the country (and the shogun was the de facto ruler of the country for much of the time the title was in use, with the Emperor largely being a puppet ruler); regional leaders generally held the title of "daimyo". There actually wasn't a shogun at the time the movie is set, as Japan's last shogun - Tokugawa Yoshinobu - had been removed from power by the Emperor in 1868, roughly eight years before The Last Samurai begins. Secondly, Japan was absolutely a unified country by the time of the Meiji Restoration; the last time it could realistically be called a domain of warring fiefdoms was during the Sengoku Jidai. At the end of that period, a succession of three warlords (Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu) forcibly united the country, and it was Ieyasu who established the Tokugawa Shogunate that reigned over Japan from the 1600s to the mid-1800s. >He was not as young as reflected in this movie, but I think the age of the actor reflects very well on the screen the fact that he was inexperienced at governing. Meiji (Mutsuhito during his life) would have been just 23 years old during the first scene we see him (Autumn, 1876), and 24 during the last (Spring, 1877). His age is fairly accurately reflected in the film. That said, the real Meiji was not inexperienced at governing (he had occupied the Chrysanthemum Throne for 10 years by this point) though to what extent he was an active participant in the reforms sweeping Japan at this point versus being merely used by his court is an ongoing matter of intense historical debate.

My favorite character (in my favorite movie)...and he is awesome in the new Shogun series!!

Also Katsumoto wore a western uniform and his forces used guns like they had for 200 years. It's a good movie but it's also an anti western movie.

@@flyingmonkeydeathsquadronc968Yes realizing the uselessness of armour re breach loading modern firearms they had binned that years before the last charge. However if you check out the Extra History series 'The End of the Samurai' you'll find Saigo Takamori and his last 500 men charging down a hillside with his katana's to end things in the old way. Their firearms discarded for this last battle. Of course withing 10 years Saigo was enshrined as a shining example of Bushido by the Emperor.

@@666johnco To be fair Saigo ran out of ammunition for the firearms he had with him. So he had little left he could do other than be over run or charge and honor dictated charge.

@@flyingmonkeydeathsquadronc968 ah yes there was that as well, also extra History does cut lots of fact out to move along on a story in this instance from 1853 to 1877.

"I will tell you how he lived." Is the entire quote.

its called sepuku and the reason you choose a second is to make sure that person can cut your head off cleanly in a single sword stroke.

Not Hara Kari. It's hara-kiri. Harakiri refers to the act of self disembowelment to redeem oneself from shame (of defeat or something else). Seppuku, refers to the whole ritual with the (merciful act of) assisted beheading at the end.

You're confusing Hari-kari, with seppeku.

Or harakiri with seppuku.

​@@jeffburnham6611seppuku🙏

I would add Saving private Ryan, Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia and many more.

@@silviuvisan505 Those are great movies, but aren't forgotten as the others.... you can check them out, look for -insert movie title- and add reaction in the youtube search bar; you'll see there's a bazillion videos about those movies, and compare that search with the ones on my list, and you'll see the difference.... I'm not saying those aren't great movies, but too many people are already making reactions to those, while other are unfairly being put aside.....

Mmh the movie is amazing but very historically inaccurate in it's depiction of the samurai etc...

@@stentharkringeril2484 It IS fiction after all. The Japanese reacted well to the film...they even created a Tom Cruise Day in honour.

@@philproffitt8363 yeah the inaccuracy totally doesn't take away the beauty of the film! Just good to keep in mind that it doesn't actually represent how things were at that time