“Perfect! They are all... perfect”. What a profound realization just as you’re dying. That was worth living many lifetimes.

Shot in New Zealand. Funny story, during filming, a local radio station offered to pay $2,745 to anyone who could persuade Cruise, who's been filming in the area, to call in live on the air. After hearing this on set, Cruise called after a night of shooting saying he wanted "to do a little negotiating" over the amount. "(I called) to see if I can get you up to $3,600," said Cruise, adding that he'd match that amount. He asked for the funds to go to local junior school he drove past every day on the way to set, They had been trying to raise money for a shelter for the kids to play out side. What a guy

Hey, loved the reaction! at 13:33 its not infection or dehydration, its alcohol withdrawal. "Sake" is alcohol. He drinks to numb his emotions and memories. He was suffering because he had to face his past traumas and the only way he knew how to do it before was by getting drunk.

"When I took these, you were my enemy." - Katsumoto

My favorite part.."You don't look at me the way Tom looks at her." 😅 yall are so cute..love the reaction..

You edited out my favourite part of the movie: "Tell me how he died." "I will tell you how he lived." ❤️

19:49 Those practice swords are called bokken and they’re traditionally made of red or white oak, and, yes, they hurt 😅

In the way of the samurai, death in the line of duty was considered highly honorable. So they were not angry at their enemies.

"You don't look at me like Tom Cruise looks at her." Toni's best line!

Col. Bagley: "Just tell me one thing: what is it about your own people that you hate so much?" to sum that up, 2 earlier movies tell that story: Little Big Man (1970) with a very young Dustin Hoffman, and Dances With Wolves (1990) with Kevin Costner starring and directing it.

The wooden swords the Samurai were seen practicing with, are called boken. They're made of lacquered hardwood, usually oak. They're approximately the same weight as a katana.

Months before filming started (in New Zealand), a whole crew got dozens of horses in New Zealand and carefully trained them to fall so they would not be hurt, Toni. They did a phenominal job.

A couple of things 1. Samurai can be singular or plural, and according to the director it refers to the entire group of samurai as the last of their kind. 2. Katsumoto kept Nathan alive to learn about his enemy and also because of the vision of the white tiger at the beginning of the film, which was on Nathan's flag in the first battle. 3. They weren't dehydrating him. Nathan was asking for sake, which is alcohol, and at that point he was suffering withdrawals and having nightmares of his past, which between that and his wound is why he was sweating. 4. I highly recommend the show Shogun, which stars Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays Ujio in this movie (the samurai who Tom Cruise was fighting with wooden sticks).

I will miss our conversations. ❤

I really really despise tom for stuff hes done and said in his personal life... but I really really enjoy watching him act. He is a phenomenal actor. Great reaction. Thank you.

Great reaction guys like always, love this movie its one of my favourites. When Katsumoto says "Perfect" and the tear rolls off his cheek. That is one of the most perfectly shot scenes I have seen. Many people think that the character of Tom Cruise is the Last Samurai, that is wrong. Contrary to popular conception, the title of the film does not refer to Nathan Algren, or even Katsumoto, as the Last Samurai. The word "Samurai" here is in its plural form and is actually referring to Katsumoto's clan as a whole. This was confirmed by the director. Cruise's character was the narrator of the story about Katsumoto. And a fun-fact, this was filmed in New Zealand and Tom Cruise would have to fly by helicopter from the town he was staying in out to the set in the country side. He would fly over a small country school of only about 20-30 students and they were 5-11 yrs old. Every day they would stand outside and wave to the helicopter and had a little sign they held up saying " Hi Tom". Tom Cruise found out where the school was and arranged for his helicopter to land at the school and spent the morning with the children. Keep up the good work.

Algren was whispering to himself, when he stood as a target infront of that soldier: " Shoot me god damn it" He wished for his own death in the start, just as when he didnt flinch when the samurai dude intimmidated him by wanting him to decapitate him right then and there... Again when he fought the son of the man he killed, where this samurai dude took over in his place to give him a proper beating... (THAT scene is sooooooooooooooo good, so complex, so layered) Algren kept getting up again and again, trying to provoke the samurai to just end it, but i guess that one backfired because it showed determination, strenght and most important of all, it showed valor, which low key gained him a shit ton of respect.. ^^

So excited. In my top 3 movies of all time.

Like the Dandelion shirt. There's a pretty good channel called "History Buffs", where they analyze the historical accuracy of historical movies, and I think they do a vid on this one. What little fact checking I've done they seem to be accurate. Enjoyed the reaction : ).

Whenever anyone puts shit on Tom I always say "The Last Samurai" and it shut's them right up, I personally don't care about an actor's private life, I watch who's good and forget the rest.

The real battle was the battle of Shiroyama, 500 Samurai charged at 30000 imperial soldiers. The ending of the Samurai was a battle of 60 to 1. They charged without fear, fighting for the japanese culture, their ancestors and their emperor. They where led by Saigō Takamori, who is known as the last samurai. About the why they fought firing in lines; the muskets was an extremely inaccurate weapon. So by firing in a line you got the best possible chance to kill or wound as many of the enemies in one volley. Most engagements was maybe six shots fired, then a charge with bayonets.

This is the movie that caused me not to get a job. i was asked what's my favorite movie was during an interview, i answered this movie. I guess they figured I'm not a team player. 😂

From what I read, this story is actually loosely based on the Boshin War, between the Emperor's Imperial forces and former Shogunate forces. Nathan Algren were based on a French military instructor or something that supported the Shogunate (or maybe a few of them that supported the Shogunate). Of course, a lot of things in the film are fictional.

well my my my. what do we have here?

Some horses are very good at falling down safely and acting like they got shot. When they do their part, it isn't as chaotic as it looks on the finished film.

fun fact: Samurai "Bob" is a well known actor and he came out of retirement for this movie.

fun fact: The guy that made the sword is a 4th generation sword maker and he setup the forge and made the sword that Tom Cruise received.

You edited out "They are all perfect". That was such a a huge part of the story

In scene where Nathan demonstrates that the troops are not ready for battle, he is hoping to be shot and killed as he sick for his part in the Indian massacre and doesn't want to go to battle again.

29:00 This scene is heartbreaking. The topknot is a key element of Samurai culture. When he cries out as his topknot is being cut off, it’s like he’s begging his ancestors' forgiveness for having allowed himself to be publicly dishonoured like this.

Again, it was a pleasure to be with everyone. 20K soon. 100K soon after!

YES.....300 !!!

the practice swords were Bokken, and they def arent Bamboo, generally made from a hardwood, usually oak, there IS a practice sword made of thin bamboo slats called a Shinai, but the practice swords they were using were Bokken

fun fact: The Emperor is a Chinese person that does traditional theatre.

Volley fire was effective because the rifles from 16th century to the middle of the 19th century were all loaded by hand one shot at a time. At the end the rifles were needle guns, loaded by opening the bolt and load a single bullet, but it didn't an internal magazine.

8:45 He put himself in that position because he was almost hoping to be shot. His PTSD is severe.

Ahh ohh!! David you’re in trouble with these movies! Toni always has a comment for you from these movies,!!! You don’t look at her like Tom did and you didn’t write her a song like Adam Sandler did!!! Wonder what the next movie will bring ???😂😂

Just a little reminder, Samurai is also plural, so the title could be about a last group of Samurai as opposed to just one in particular. 🤙😎

The wooden training swords are called boken. They are solid. It hurts to get hit with them. I've been hit on my hand while training with a fellow student, and it is quite painful. They are used in aikido. The bamboo swords are called shinai (pronounced shee-nye). It stings to get hit with them. They are used in kendo.

Oh, this ones going to be good. See yall later.

nice reaction. I watched this movie multiple times. I love the Japanese culture shown on the movie. I think you missed the Katsumoto vision at the beginning, of the White Tiger and the banner that Tom Cruise used to defend himself showing a white tiger on it.

Volley fire (standing in a line shooting) was common because they were using muskets - muzzle-loading long-guns that shot round bullets and with smooth (un-rifled) barrels, which means the bullets didn't fly very straight and thus had a very short range of effectiveness when shot one-at-a-time. Thus, the only way they were really effective was with volley fire. Yes, it seems absolutely insane today - and it kind of was even then - but even war was "honorable" at the time and firing from cover was considered dishonorable. Not long after, the French developed the Minié ball - which was really a conical bullet with a hollow base. That, coupled with a rifled barrel, meant that the bullet would expand at the base when fired and engage the rifling of the barrel, which would impart a fast spin onto the bullet, allowing a massive increase in long-range accuracy compared to musket balls. And this allowed, for example, officers to be specifically targeted and actually hit, and THAT quickly led to abandoning volley lines and firing from cover from much longer distances - and that quickly evolved to trench warfare as seen in WWI. Warfare techniques have always been heavily influenced by the technologies available at the time, and change rapidly as technology changes. War has always been incredibly brutal, and it's always largely been the young men whose lives were sacrificed - sometimes completely needlessly.

Ujio (Hiroyuki Sanada) is my favorite… you start out hating him, but slowly learn his perspective and his role as Katsumoto’s #1. As he teaches Algren the way of the sword, you begin to warm to him. By the end, you are 100% Team Ujio. Great character, nicely developed by Sanada with barely any dialogue !

Great movie. Tremendous score. One of Hans Zimmer's best (which is saying something because the dude has killer movie scores). Hiroyuki Sanada, who plays Ujio the master swordsman, has been on a tremendous run recently in western movies/TV shows. He was in Avengers: Endgame, Bullet Train (a main role) and the Shogun mini series (which he produced as well). He did a ton of japanese films before this movie, but the one that I really loved is "The Twilight Samurai".

If you want to know the real story of the last samurai I highly recommend Sabaton History Shiroyama. It tells why the Emperor considered Satsuma an enemy.

45:23 "you don't look at me like Tom Cruise looked at her." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks to this movie, there is a national Tom Cruise day in Japan, for showing a respect for their heritage to the rest of the world.

Brave heart is “brutal”!!

A bokken is made from hardwood. The Shinai is a 'gentler' version made from split bamboo (and optionally covered by a leather skin. Western fencing also uses 'feders' (or feather swords) made from steel (with a rectangular section and rounded edges and blunt tip). There are also nylon swords which are more flexible in the thrust than the older wooden wasters. My favourite sword type for fencing is a leather blade sandwiched between two 'scales' to provide support and stiffness without compromising the suppleness of the edge and point. I will happily fence with steel, nylon or leather, and understand that the shinai can be useful... but would not be comfortable fencing with the bokken - they don't flex in the thrust and if they break, then form a sharp splinter/tip which is dangerous. They are nice as objects though.

This movie is based on real life events. Tom Cruise's character is based on a French artillery officer named 'Jules Brunet' who helped in what was called "The Satsuma Rebellion" in 1870's Japan which was a resistance to Western influence and the restoration of the Meiji Government which would mean the abandoning of Japanese Samurai feudalism. Katsumoto's character is based on the real life last Samurai named "Saigo Takamori" who also was involved in the Satsuma Rebellion in the effort to resist the restoration of the Empiric form of government representative of the Meiji restoration.

42:57, I always took their bowing to me not just respect for the actual Samurai who were dying. They were also bidding farewell to a part of their culture that was dying as well.

This may be considered a modern epic kinda-sorta. Not a TC fan per se but I appreciate his work. I read somewhere that this film is highly regarded in Japan due to the honorable depiction of the Japanese people. Really like Ken Watanabe’s performance, I think he really nailed this role. David you mentioned “300” (didn’t care for it, just too much fantasy. The real story is amazing without any embellishment) & “Braveheart”, but I’d like to add some classic epics: “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Ben Hur”, “Dr. Zhivago” & “Cleopatra”. Hope you add them all to your reaction list.

Nathan is suicidal because of the shame he feels for what he was ordered to do against Native American Indians. He is wanting the Sake because he is a drunk and the alcohol eases his inner pain. The reason the Samurai defeated them in the first battle is because 1. the Japanese couldn't shoot straight and 2 because he told them to hold their fire and they got scared and fired before they should have and then didnt have time to reload. Also when he aske that one guy to shoot at him he was hoping to be killed but knew the guy would miss because they were not ready yet.

Tom Cruise's best film imo or at least in the 2000s.

The wooden sword are not made of bamboo they are made of solid wood. I don’t know what kind of wood they have in Japan. But yes, they are made of solid wood.

As a Spartan follower, I cannot wait to see you both react to 300 which is such a major part of history and a battle that shaped what we are today. So looking forward to that one!

Space the violent movies with some less violent movies, still waiting for "Pacific" followed by "Masters of the Air". Toni only jumped four or five times, but great reaction.

So glad for this selection! Thank y'all!

13:39 He’s also dealing with a severe case of PTSD, which is most probably why he drinks so much.

Lets go! Still waiting for little miss sunshine

great reaction, your reaction to thier beliefs was funny. death is not bad, if done in honor. failure dishonor is bad. they had the same culture when we had to fight the monster we help create.. why the tested prisoners bad, to them they were cowards, they would end it themselves rather then surrenrer.The quote, “Death is lighter than a feather, but Duty is heavier than a mountain” is not original with Robert Jordan. It is from the 1882 Japanese Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors, which states that "duty is heavier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather." See Wikipedia entry "Imperial Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors.

War tactics during the early years of the US was really ridiculous. They didn't start defensive tactics until around WW1.

The Last Of The Mohicans starring Daniel Day Lewis

Hello. It's a Turkish movie, Ward 7. It's based on a true story. It's perfect. You won't be able to hold back your tears.

One of the best movie music Score ever

This movie was loosely based on true events, at the time that Japan had interest in becoming "civilized" the Samurai were opposing that changed as they knew people would forget their traditions n culture, which Katsumoto mentioned when he met with the council, they were "whoring themselves" to other nations. In the end, obviously, the Samurai, as a class, were eliminated but the emperor compromise on not changing abruptly so they would forget their core traditions n such. Captain Algren's character is based on a couple of real life people i've heard. Tom is a super popular actor, staring in so many great films but this one is by far my favorite movie of his. I'm sure Toni would enjoy reacting to 'Memoirs of a Geisha' another great movie that shows about another aspect of the Japanese culture. 'Katsumoto' is in it as well, Ken Watanabe, my favorite Japanese actor

Part of the "dances with" trilogy (wolves, sushi, and smurfs)

150 watching and only 35 likes? C'mon man, we got to bump those numbers up!

At 30:06 you asked what it meant; it's the kanji for Samurai. As for the "true story" part, Tom Cruise's character was completely fabricated, but there was a civil war in Japan between the samurai and the Imperial Army of Japan. The real reason was the fact that for thousands of years, samurai held the power, and they were losing their social status because of the advent of conscripted armies with easy to use firearms vs the lifestyle of the samurai. The standing in the line thing was to defend from cavalry charges (the rifles with bayonets were like medieval pikes, and could be en masse to deter a charge.) The tactic was on it's way out at this point, and would be totally obsolete with the invention of the machine gun in the early 1900s 20 or so years later.

Definitely watch the movie 300!

I think that this story is based on an episode of Mr. Saigo who existed. While Mr. Saigo was a member of the government, I took sides with oppressed samurais and raised a revolt. This war was the Battle of samurai definitely in the last.

Boken is a training sword of hard wood. It is considered a deadly weapon, is banned from carry-on luggage. In the real story, it was a French officer.

At the beginning he was an alcoholic, that was him going through withdrawal and yelling for sake.

The training swords they are using are called Bokken (made of white or red oak) there is a bamboo training sword used in the sport of Kendo called a shinai

My movie recommendation after this that involves Tom Cruise has got to be War Of The Worlds. Prolly watched it over 200 times since it came out. One of the most captivating movies I've ever experienced.

I remember i was 17 when i first saw this film. Country boy on a western Australian fruit plantation for picking season to make some money during school holidays. After a particlarly long hard day, The overseer comes into our sleeping shed and says "Watch this one boys". A small TV in the corner that I never seen used. A group of 15 or 16 rambunctious young men all under the age 20 and you could hear a pin drop after the first 20 minutes.

This movie is a loose retelling of the Satsuma Rebellion against Emperor Meiji's social reforms. Katsumoto is a fictionalized representation of Takamori Saigo, the actual last Samurai, who fell at the Battle of Shiroyama. Saigo is venerated in Japan. After being wounded in the hip during the battle, Saigo committed seppuku.

Nice reaction for the film. Funny how your wife said it reminded her of the battle at the beach. I think it reminded her of Glory. Actually the director both did this and Glory

An absolutely perfect movie from beginning to end.

Guys, if you want a historical film that tries to be accurate don't bother with 300 or Braveheart but if spectacle over substance is your thing then maybe give 'em a go. 😊

@popcc-david you guys should watch more actual Chinese/Japanese cinema like John Woo's Hard Boiled or Hayao Mizaki animation...

No it's not a true story, some facts are partially historical other are just romance, and some are craps. At this time it's accurate that Japan Emperor Meji and some of his counsellor try to devellop and modernize their country (i mean passing to an industrial Era)... They opened up their frontiers to trade with foreign country...and so the society was torn between centuries or even millenias of traditions and this new culture... Samouraïs the noble warrior cast rebelled against that modernisation and the fall of their culture and status but they didn't disappear as fast as in the movie... And to be true historically, the men who trained the imperial forces before turning to the side of the Samouraï was not an american, sorry, his name is "Jules Brunet" a French army Captain...

remember, regarding the title, "samurai" is a plural noun. It's not a specific individual

A movie I think would be more up Toni's alley would be "Murphy's Romance" starring James Garner and Sally Field. I don't often like romantic comedies but this one and "Pretty Woman" are exceptions.

Two films, two adaptations for which I have yet to see reactions: Girl with a pearl earring and Night train to Lisbon.

27:26 They’re bowing out of respect. The Samurai were a very high class in Japanese society.

And about what u guys said about Saving Private Ryan, I would recommend a Korean version of that film, called Brotherhood of War, also called Taeguki

Definitely Braveheart for sure

This movie is one of my guilty pleasures. It became one of my favourite movies when I watched it as a kid. But I say 'guilty' because there are quite a lot of historical inaccuracies, illogical decision-making by the characters, and over dramatisation and innacurate depiction of the Japanese people and the samurai. I wish they would do a remake but taking into account the above.

Check out braveheart for sure

If you are lookimg for some lighter fun movies, try these: Romancing The Stone Parenthood Three Men & A Baby Dave American President Cocktail - Early Tom Cruise Adventures in Babysitting

I you want to know more about the true story of the last samourai on what this movie is based on you can llok up to Jules Brunet, the whole movie is inspired on his life

Now i would recommend watching the mini series Shogun. That would be the best follow up :)

I have a movie for you....The Town That Dredded Sundown....it is based on actual events back in the 1940's in Texarkana....my mother remembered the events & her parents boarded up their windows just to be safe & they live almost 200 miles away in Oklahoma. You will be on the edge of your seat, but there is a little comedy in it here & there. I would love to see your reactions.

If she needs a break in between, cheer her up by reacting to 'Easy A' with Emma Stone. Very underrated comedy.

7:40 Very loosely inspired by true events. Cruise's character is based on a French officer who spent TEN years, not just one, training soldiers in Japan. The rebellion was real, the names are changed, and like I said, it took place over about ten years, n9t just one year, like in the movie.

Toni is not ready for either Braveheart or 300.

please watch tom cruises best movie IMO "rainman", dustin hoffman won an academy award for this movie. THANKS! ( its NOT a war movie).

consider watching mad max fury road. its a masterpiece

Greetings from Chile, South America, I like your videos!!