Our Rating: 9.0

IMDb Ratings : 7 .7

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama

Cast: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly

Country: USA

Language: English | Japanese

Runtime: 154 min

Color: Color









T he Last Samurai is a 2003 epic action movie directed by American filmmaker and screenplay writer he Last Samurai is a 2003 epic action movie directed by American filmmaker and screenplay writer Edward Zwick . The Last Samurai's screenplay is

co-written by John Logan.

The Last samurai serves to be a great extension as well as a befitting tribute to the plethora of great Japanese Chambara

movies

(Samurai Action Flicks)

A Still from The Last Samurai

In The Last Samurai, Zwick adds a whole new dimension to the Epic Samurai Cinema by providing a whole new (Western) perspective on the Japanese lexicon of Pride and Honor. For a defeated or a debilitated Samurai, the highest act of honor is to commit Harakiri or Seppuku

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The Japanese Ritual of Suicide by Disembowelment. However, the West looks upon such an act of self-destruction as a symbol of abject pessimism and weakness, for the Western Philosophy teaches one to fight till the very last breath, whatever the odds might be. This striking contract is beautifully captured in The Last Samurai, probably for the first time on the celluloid, thanks to Zwicks stimulating direction and screenplay.





Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a

brilliantly crafted aesthetic pleasure studded with supernal performances from Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise

Cruise portrays a cynical American military officer named Nathan Algren, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him in contact with the last clan of samurai warriors led by Katsumoto.

Tom Cruise unarguably gives his best ever performance, surpassing his portrayal of Jerry Maguire in the eponymous flick. Cruise's plaintive portrayal of Nathan Algren not only elicits pathos but also seeks sympathy of the viewer who can vicariously relate to Algren's self-inflicted plight

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a product of his inner conflict between patriotism and humanity.