The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

"I just thought we had the opportunity to depict Japan in a way that we were never able to before. So we thought we were making something special." If anything, Watanabe believed The Last Samurai ...

Algren becomes accustomed to their way of life. He then decides to join their rebellion, after realising that the imperialists are the real enemy after all. The Last Samurai was nominated for four ...

American filmmaker Edward Zwick’s movie “The Last Samurai” will be screened during a session at the Arasbaran Cultural Center ...

Cruise may be the headliner, but Watanabe is the movie’s soul. In this way, The Last Samurai managed to plant one foot in the future despite being stuck in the Eurocentric past, with Zwick and ...

Veteran producer Ted Field, whose credits include "Cocktail," "The Last Samurai," "Jumanji," and ... their performances are compelling and the way the story is told is unique.

The Last Samurai is not the story of an American encountering ... all sharing the capacity to commit atrocities in their own way. Blackthorne does not see “honor” he hopes to emulate in ...

Badly wounded, Algren's courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) spare his life. Once nursed to health, he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and ...