On a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin, a reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death ...

Tom Cruise has built a career for himself running away from things in movies (oh, and a couple of death-defying stunts). But, imagine Tom Cruise running... with samurai swords. Before he flew away ...

Seven Samurai ... of the movie in 2010. Key features include: A look at the box set and contents: A trailer for the new 4K restoration, which premiered in select theaters last month: BFI echoing ...

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 ...

Duplicating an approach not attempted on a big war movie since “Tora ... significant encounter with Japanese civilians. Widescreen HD lensing in Thailand (where pic was entirely shot) is ...

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 ...

The Imperial Omura (Masato Harada) cabinet's first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai, hereditary warriors, who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty, but reject the ...

Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai is looking good! The trailer is now online over a the Apple website – click the link below to check it out. Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai ...

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.