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@@FlixTalk You would also like 47 Ronin and love Shogun Assassin.

@@FlixTalk You should watch old ninja movies like Revenge of the Ninja with Sho Kosugi and his son's Kane and Shane Kosugi and Ninja 2 with Scott Adkins and Kane Kosugi.

@@FlixTalk This was a real good movie and in it I was all for the Samurai but in reality the Samurai would not teach a non Japanese and the Ninja were farmers who had to come up with a way to protect themselves from the Samurai and there masters who were the Shoguns so these farmers created Ninjutsu and there were different clans the two main ones were the Iga and Koga Clans and they would not teach non Japanese in the old days eventually that changed a Grandmaster in Ninjutsu is Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi he is on KZfaq.Some ninja did become bad and assassin's for hire by the Shogun for example.But for the most part the Samurai and Shoguns were the enemy of the Ninja.The Samurai used Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu and Karate the Ninja used Ninjutsu you can watch both on KZfaq but some Ninja teachers are fake just like in other styles.

Why do you know so much bout that stuff?

That's what I think is so great about this movie to people, and why it hits so hard. It appears to be one thing on the surface, and purposefully subverts all the tropes (most) that a typical Hollywood movie would fall into.

The truth, as demonstrated by history, is that the Emperor was right to modernize Japan, as the Imperial Japanese military ran roughshod over China (whether that was the right thing to do is a separate question) and was eventually able to go toe-to-toe with the US military during WWII, and as the Japanese economy is a first world economy today. Even in the movie, the modernized Japanese army, fully-trained, didn’t cut and run in the face of the fearsome samurai. And the samurai weren’t averse to using modern weapons. The samurai rebels just reverted to traditional weaponry when they ran out of ammo.

Critics are generally idiots

I agree, the Last Samurai might not be completely historically accurate, but it is loosely based on historical events. During the Japanese civil war, Samurai Lords that fought against the Emperor's army did have white people becoming Samuraies and join the Japanese Samurai rank. Althought they mostly serve as technical advisor against European style military. In the last battle where Tom Cruise's character join the Samurai that is exactly the same role that Tom Cruise's character is. He is not a commander, he is an advisor. The Samurai Lords didn't trust the Europeans enough to give them command, but use them as advisors. The biggest historical inaccurate is that the Samurai had fire arms. Asia started using fire arm dated back to the 10th century. Europeans' first fire arm is introduced by the Mongols from Asia to the west. And in the beginning it is mostly used by the new Russian army trained by the Mongols. (it is similar to when British colonized India, they trained a modernized India army with British commanders. The Mongols did the same thing in Russia. During the 13th century, an Eastern military is rather modernized for the west. We also saw that army in battle in Asia. Chinese record told of Mongol forces with all Mongol officers, but the soldiers got pale skin with blond hair and blue eyes. Those soldiers are recruited from the far west. When the Mongol forces started to loose the war, some of those blond hair and blue eye soldiers deflected to the Chinese.) So, the Samurai did have fire arms. Even back to 15th century, there are record of Samurai Fire army regiment. (Asian in that time had a fire arm leigion with all fire army infantry. The legion will have one regiment attached to each infantry legion. The idea is similar to modern US army. Each infantry company will got 3 rifle platoon and one weapon platoon. The weapon platoon got weapons such as RPG and snipers and machine guns. While the other platoons stick with rifle. The ancient Asia follow the same idea. Each Division got one fire arm regiment and number of none fire army regiments.) But the reason to adopt western weapon for Japanese, is due to the fire arm weapons used by the Japanese are outdated. They need a massive upgrade. And a modernized army need all fire armed infantry not just semi fire armed. And they didn't have enough Sergeants and officers to train the peasants. So, they hire Europeans. But, by Tom Cruies' era the Samurai fought against the Emperor, no longer got fire arms, due to their supply line is cut. So, it is historical accurate that the Samurai only used swords and bow and arrow. The movie did have a line where the Japanese General told Tom Cruies' character that the Samurai no longer disgrace themselves via using fire arm. So, the movie did acknowledge that the Samurai once used fire arms. Just that most audiences didn't notice that line (next time you watch this movie, pay attention to that and you will notice it) Overall speaking, the Last Samurai is very historically accurate. (PS: In pre modern army, they didn't have so many officers. Platoons and regiments are much larger in size.)

Based on a real Frenchman too.

When you get that final look into each other's eyes as they are staring at themselves basically dead....you think about the whole fight they went through up until that point and going from enemies to brothers basically....it's fucking beautiful!

@@FlixTalk I couldn't agree with you more, I choked up bad when I saw it at 15 and will do the exact same thing to this day. Katsumoto saying, "they're all perfect" oooh that hit too. - I didn't even say, but your video was great man.

My guess is it appeals to the most primal, highest, noblest ideals that we men are wired to pursue. And that's why we tear

am Vietnamese, me and my dad consistently tear up with this movie. Seems to be universal ideals deep down for men, I think.

@@xadrach agreed. It’s the respect and honour of the ‘warrior’. We have an innate warrior spirit in us all

when he say"they're all perfect" it really hit me

It is a masterpiece that oblige us men to be as brave as him.

there are many details who do not receive enough acknowledgement

They saved him.

oh yeah for sure. and it takes a long time too i liked that a lot in many movies they just fast forward the process. he gets his ass kicked over and over and he never actually wins a sparring round he only gets a draw as his best. he does save katsumuto and taka from the ninjas though thats the only scene i thought was a little bit silly. like i mean ok to kill one or two ninjas but he was just tossing ninjas to the side left and right, professional assassins i think it would have been better if he had one long fight with ONE or maybe two ninjas but ok its hollywood after all. otherwise the only thing he provides is really that he knows the enemy better than they do because he helped to train them and he has some connections that they dont but yeah as you say otherwise its all about the samurai and taka.

I've never seen anything but awe and respect towards Taka from reactors and comments. Ever. What do you mean "than she usually receives"? Where have you encountered otherwise?

Indeed. It had some STIFF competition: 'Master And Commander' and of course "Return Of The King".

I'll have to watch the BTS! Thanks for watching

Only unfortunate thing about this movie is it came out same year as Return of the King, otherwise it would have won picture of the year any other year

And even when he's been mortally wounded, he's making sure he takes an escort with him beyond the veil

You also forgot the third meaning. Throughout the movie, Katsumoto struggled to finish his own poem. His last words were also the final line of his poem. He finally finished it.

One of my favorite lines in all of cinema. It could have came off so cliched, but with everything that happened in the movie, it had such deep meaning behind it. As much as Katsumoto and the samurai put so much stake in how they died, it was in how they LIVED, that Nathan had found peace and meaning in his life.

@@lockekappa500 nailed it!

What made it even more powerful was that when the Emperor said, "Tell me how he died." Nathan basically says *No* to the Emperor (something you never did). But he says no in such a way that even the Emperor smiles and nods; almost like saying, "You are right," and does this in front of the Emperor's top advisors. I think it's the second most powerful scene, next to all the soldiers laying down their weapons and bowing to Katsumoto after he died.

Thank you for the kind words & thank you for watching!

The only thing I think he missed was katsemoto saying 'I will miss our conversations'.

Thank you so much for joining me on my movie journey. It means a lot and welcome to the Flix Talk family

Thanks for watching! I am loving discovering new movies everyday and that I can share them with this awesome community!

This emotion was unmatched! It's ok to feel! Thanks for watching!

So I usually do mention it but was so choked up by everything in the end...it's always a combination of tragedy + amazing score that cue the water works lol this composer and director did their damn job!

I own maybe three soundtracks. Listen to this one by Hans Zimmer mostly. Just love it. I can picture the scene by track.

the ending where they ride to do battle again the Japanese army and when the show the gatlin gun, was my favorite/not favorite if that makes any sense at all. it showed their true courage even in the eye of certain death.

*Legends of the Fall* (1994) with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins is another epic film by Edward Zwick. A must see.

I appreciate you watching! Thank you guys so much for letting me truly be me with these reactions!

he may be a bat shit lunatic in his personal life but he ALWAYS seems to make good flicks. The mission impossible films are damn good,top gun maverick was great, valkyrie,american made,edge of tommorow, oblivion are all solid flicks as well. He just is so passionate about making quality entertainment

I love this - he is also sensational in Minority Report

Edge of Tomorrow and Born on the 4th of July are also fantastic movies

@@christopherfrost1820 Personal lives are no one's business. Like you said, he knows how to make a movie that totally entertains and puts everything he has into it, learning whatever skills are required to make the performance realistic. I aw Top Gun: Maverick in theatres and it was fantastic. Like you, I also love Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion, Minority Report and so many others of his films.

Thank you for the kind words! It really means the world!

Thanks for watching bro!

Thank you for experiencing it once again with my first time! It truly was a cinematic masterpiece!