Mifune achieved the full heroic ... The Last Samurai,” and perhaps of any successful documentary about cinema history, is that it makes you want to run out and see the movies all over again.

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 ...