The Last Samurai R
In the face of an enemy, in the heart of one man, lies the soul of a warrior.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada & Billy Connolly | |
Performer: | Masato Harada | |
Directed by | Edward Zwick | |
Edited by | Steven Rosenblum & Victor Du Bois | |
Screenwriting by | Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz & John Logan | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Tom Engelman, Edward Zwick, Scott Kroopf, Paula Wagner, Ted Field, Tom Cruise & Marshall Herskovitz | |
Director of Photography: | John Toll | |
Executive Production by | Charles Mulvehill, Vincent Ward & Richard Solomon |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C --
It's a film at war with itself. Worse, it's a mixed bag of carefully packaged entertainment, with little room for spontaneity or surprise.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Beautifully designed, intelligently written, acted with conviction, it's an uncommonly thoughtful epic.
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the best films of 2003.
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Cinema Crazed
It's easy to stand back and wax ironic about The Last Samurai. But it's not all that difficult to succumb to its full-spirited romanticism either.
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TIME Magazine
Mostly, though, The Last Samurai aims for, and achieves, epic sweep: the glory of tradition-bound warriors hurling themselves against the modern world, the grandeur of Hollywood offering two points of view on everything.
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The Nation
THE LAST SAMURAI is another stirring Civil War-era epic directed by Edward Zwick.
Widescreen Review
Rating: 2/5 --
The real point of the film seems to be the poster image of a battle-ready Tom Cruise waving a sword and all decked out in gleaming red-and-black samurai armor.
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eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
Edward Zwick directs this sumptuously designed, action-packed period epic that stars Tom Cruise as Captain Nathan Algren. Algren, a former Civil War hero, is adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the war, a lost soul struggling to stay afloat in a booze-soaked stupor. When he is recruited by the Japanese government to train the Emperor's army, he departs for the unknown shores of Japan and begins training the soldiers in American military tactics. But these skills are useless against a band of samurai rebels led by the proud warrior Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), and Algren is easily defeated. He is taken to a remote samurai village where he learns samurai warrior codes and ways of life, developing a deep bond with Katsumoto and sharing philosophical conversations with him. Caught between the feudal culture of the ancient samurai warriors and the encroachment of modern society, Algren is forced to choose between his own culture or Katsumoto's. THE LAST SAMURAI is lavish in its dramatic period costumes and intense performances, and will thrill fans of both historical drama and action films.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Civil War
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War
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Heroes
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Epic
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Period Piece
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Samurai
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Historical
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Theatrical Release
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Violence
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Japan
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Ancient Civilizations
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Soldiers
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Battles