The Meiji Restoration, the era of change. Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), who has made great achievements in the war with the Indians, comes to Japan as a training instructor for the new Japanese army. He and the new Japanese army face a major enemy - the stubborn samurai group and its leader Katsumoto (Watanabe Ken). The new army rushed into battle without finishing training, and was beaten by the samurai army. Algren himself was captured by the samurai. Although Algren killed Katsumoto's brother-in-law, the samurai did not kill him, but let him live together in the village of the samurai and their families. Over the course of two years, Algren's nightmare of slaughtering Indians in the past kept coming into his mind. After many conflicts and exchanges with Katsumoto, his sister Kata (Kato Koyuki), and the typical samurai Ujio (Sanada Hiroyuki), he found that Identifying and falling in love with samurai culture, Kata and her son are inseparable from Algren despite being the murderer of her husband and father. Yet the wheel of history is relentless, and the things of the past are doomed to be obsolete. Two years later, the emperor sent a modern army that had been trained to carry out encirclement and suppression. In the face of cannons, machine guns, samurai swords on the waist and hips, and the last samurai with bows and arrows, how should you write your own destiny? Algren is sandwiched between the two, where should he go?
The film highlights the Japanese samurai culture unfamiliar and curious to Westerners. For example, being defeated in battle, being polite, chanting Buddha, practicing martial arts, etc., the film has made great efforts in this area and has done it quite successfully. Katsumoto's younger sister Kata is very kind in the face of murdering her husband and the enemy, and the details are very strange in the eyes of Westerners. Algren himself was infected with the spirit of the samurai at the end, and he did it quite realistically and smoothly, making all the audience sigh for the samurai. All in all, the firm and stubborn attitude of the thousand-year-old Japanese samurai class and samurai culture in the face of the wave of modernization, and the tragic ending of it, are the themes of this film. Performed well.
The film scene is also very grand, the natural scenery is beautiful and beautiful, and the samurai costumes are exquisite. Another major feature is that both English and Japanese coexist, but they are not complicated. For those who want to practice bilingual listening, you might as well try it.
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