Hollywood — and America’s — fascination with all things Asian continues in Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, a movie that successfully merges a Western with a samurai movie. Zwick ...

Until the final fiteen minutes. The Last Samurai ultimately succumbs to one of the most obvious and perilous pitfalls in "message" movies: It decides to repeatedly (and somewhat turgidly ...

December 2003 saw the release of director Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, a sweeping epic charting ... It’s one of his finest moments in the movie. I’m sure had I asked him to do it ...

by Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, doesn’t sabotage the images, and the great cinematographer John Toll turns action into poetry, The Last Samurai emerges as a haunting silent movie.