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The Last Samurai
Directed by Edward Zwick
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist. From TMDB
197 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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The Last Samurai is a 2003 drama action war film, directed by Edward Zwick, starring Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe and Timothy Spall.
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60 of 197 · most liked firstScene from The Last Samurai This photograph captures a quiet, emotionally charged moment from the 2003 epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Last Samurai with my firstborn tonight. What an excellent film.
positive · AI labelView post →Hiroyuki Sanada as the character Ujio from the 2003 film The Last Samurai.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was teaching an English class to a forestry institute in Japan, and somehow the topic of The Last Samurai came up. They couldn't enjoy the film because it was so innacurate. Those types of ferns, they said, are nowhere in Japanese forests.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE LAST SAMURAI (2003). Director: Edward Zwick. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe. Another Hollywood epic that skews its cultural perspective through the eyes of a white central hero. Rewatching for 1st time since theatrical run. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your non-scientology Tom Cruise Hot Take - and is it hotter than "THE LAST SAMURAI is a Top 5 Cruise movie" or have we finally all caught up?
neutral · AI labelView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of THE LAST SAMURAI boxd.it/h0wECz Enormous battle sequences, gorgeous cinematography, sweeping score: ticks all technical boxes of unforgettable epic. Despite terrific Japanese cast making it worthwhile, Cruise's emotional journey feels both predictable & superficial. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Ken Watanabe's character was the Last Samurai. Did you see the film?
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally got around to watchin the Last Samurai, amazing movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #Moviesky Day 8. Asian American in a movie. The Last Samurai (2003)
neutral · AI labelView post →Their wait paid off in the mid 19th century. Remember The Last Samurai and how it was a battle between the supporters of the shogun and the Emperor? That movie is trash but the conflict happened and women fought in it. Nakano Takeko led a group of female warriors called the Joshitai (Women's Corps).
negative · AI labelView post →Katsumoto & Taka from the movie “The Last Samurai”
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not sure The Last Samurai is a GREAT movie -- it might be too much of an Edward Zwick white-man-saves-history movie for that -- but I like it. Watched it a lot when I was younger. It mostly stands up imo. Mostly.
neutral · AI labelView post →This was as much a fan service movie as was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" Just because you didn't enjoy it doesnt mean it was bad. It was 1000x times better than the borefests from James Cameron and his 10 foot alien "Ferngully: Dances With The Last Samurai Of The Mohicans" movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Me too, because its been a while since any of my students have seen "The Last Samurai" and I need a new Hollywood film to deconstruct! :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming soon: @aggressiveazeri.bsky.social and I rifftrax "The Last Samurai." Details to follow, but just so you know: this was a movie I saw in freshman year of college and loved it. Now, 21 years later, I have a doctorate in this era of Japanese history, and uh....hm. Torment. Much torment.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t remember the movie super well but I feel like probably the non-samurai in The Last Samurai had a point
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the first Avatar movie and was so unimpressed that I've refused to watch the others. Yes, the visuals are great, and I can understand why some love it, but I have no intention of watching four more variations of "Ferngully: Dances With The Last Samurai Of The Mohicans."
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't hate anyone for their fave movie :) And The Last Samurai is good. When I think of classic Samurai, I think of Harakari, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, Samurai Assassin, The Seven Samurai. B & W, 1950s and 1960s Japanese films. Something with some emotional weight balancing the action.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Last Samurai (2003), dir: Edward Zwick. It's been a while, but I love this film. Some really beautiful cinematography, plus Hiroyuki Sanada is just awesome.
positive · AI labelView post →The Japanese film director Harada Masato (原田真人) died on December 8 at the age of 76. He made hit films like Climber's High as well as art films like Kamikaze Taxi. He appears as an actor in The Last Samurai. www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book - The Book of Life (ed: Stephen Jay Gould) One movie: The Last Samurai One album: Budapest Live by Manfred Mann's Earth Band One TV show: ... uh. I genuinely don't know! One game: Warcraft III
neutral · AI labelView post →lmao the Avatar discourse is 100% right, i saw the first movie and it left such a bad taste in my mouth as a kid that i still haven't watched The Last Samurai or Dances with Wolves lmao
negative · AI labelView post →I'm close to beating a Fall of the Samurai campaign on legendary difficulty on the imperial side. Now I'm taking a break to watch my guilty pleasure movie - The Last Samurai. I love it. PJ ninjas and all.
positive · AI labelView post →The Last Samurai (2003) this film is usually considered historical fiction, buy an hour in i know it’s actually a sci-fi film with the premise: what if Tom Cruise Travelled back in time to 19th century Japan?
neutral · AI labelView post →Bit late to the party but here's a general gist of movies/shows, etc that I got into in 2025 that I really liked. Got back into a movie mood over anime last year. Excluded rewatches, otherwise I would have put stuff like Gundam 00, IBO and The Last Samurai here as much as I enjoyed revisiting them.
positive · AI labelView post →I had never before thought of The Muppets Take Manhattan as a White Savior movie a la Dances With Wolves or The Last Samurai, but Kermit's amnesia & assimilation into the native population of white-collar advertisers before eventually rejoining the Muppets & their native lady guide does fit...
neutral · AI labelView post →A Tom Cruise movie I appreciate is The Last Samurai, because it's supposed to be a Tom Cruise movie, but he got out-movie-starred so badly by Ken Watanabe and Hiroyuki Sanada that it launched their careers in the West.
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah, "The Last Samurai" is easily my most hated movie ever and I honestly don't enjoy "Shogun."
negative · AI labelView post →Management at the supermarket did not take this seriously until one day during the filming of ‘The Last Samurai’ — the 100% historically accurate movie which showed how a white man (Tom Cruise) saved Japan.
neutral · AI labelView post →I get to catch up with Jen & Sarah from @moviesanduspod.bsky.social next week! We will be talking The Last Samurai as we get closer to them joining the show to revise 2003. What do you think of this Tom Cruise film? #movies #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →For Father’s Day, a movie that makes me think of my dad is The Last Samurai. I have a fond memory of us on an out-of-town trip when I was thirteen and going to see this movie. Good flick.
positive · AI labelView post →Time to watch The Last Samurai (I’ve lost count how many times). Say what you want about Tom Cruise usually being cast in the same or similar roles in his catalogue, but he’s very good in this and the movie overall is exceptional (IMHO). Hope everyone has enjoyed the start of 2025 🙏🏾❤️
positive · AI labelView post →The Last Samurai isn't the only samurai movie. Please. I'm begging you.
neutral · AI labelView post →From the Writers on Film archive Ed Zwick talks about his career from Thirty Something to The Last Samurai and beyond. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/w...
neutral · AI labelView post →Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai (no relation to the awful Tom Cruise film) has been my favourite novel since high school. In the mid-2000s I bought her self-published PDF follow-up, YOUR NAME HERE, from her website which then vanished into publishing hell. It’s finally coming out for real.
neutral · AI labelView post →Another big day for movie releases in history. Lots of great performances, any SASSAward worthy? You decide at www.sassawards.com Serpico-1973 Beverly Hills Cop-1984 Good Will Hunting-1997 The Station Agent-2003 The Last Samurai-2003 Cadillac Records-2008 #sassawards#moviereleases#filmsky#moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I know a great film on the subject, you’ll dig it. It’s called The Last Samurai and it stars Tom Cr—*is blocked*
neutral · AI labelView post →I see a gritty movie about the end of an era, like The Last Samurai but with fencing and wine
neutral · AI labelView post →I have never read Helen De Witt and realised today I probably haven't because I thought her The Last Samurai novel was the basis of the Tom Cruise film of the same name. It isn't.
neutral · AI labelView post →Whilst it’s obviously not a “great” (or even samurai) movie, I bet The Last Samurai would make a very entertaining episode
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t wait to share this with everyone in a few weeks! The Last Samurai may be a pretty mediocre movie, but our conversation wasn’t! 🔥🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Replace a character in a movie with a wrestler: Mark Briscoe replaces Tom Cruise in 'The Last Samurai' (2003) #aew
neutral · AI labelView post →April 2025 #BALES2025FilmChallenge 4/8 -Birth of Buddha Movie Featuring Buddhism or set in Japan The Last Samurai (2003) #filmsky 🎞️ #moviesky 🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 7: All time favorite movie? The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, and Hiroyuki Sanada. This movie is a masterpiece.
positive · AI labelView post →Can we take a moment to acknowledge this poor woman in The Last Samurai because I'm having a hard time thinking of someone who was done DIRTIER by their own movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Last Samurai is a great film. I haven't watched it in ages.
positive · AI labelView post →The punchline, friends and neighbors, is that the movie in question was The Last Samurai
neutral · AI labelView post →The Complete History of Buggermania in NEW ZEALAND "..of how that ad came to be, and the impact that it continues to have on Aotearoa, 25 years on." "Hercules went on to star in The Lord of The Rings trilogy, The Last Samurai, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more film and television productions."
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched The Last Samurai last night. I hate that it would be a good movie if it wasn't told through an American pov. Like if you took Tom Cruise out of that movie it would become a masterpiece
neutral · AI labelView post →How dad coded am I that today, on my last free day of funemployment, I watched The Last Samurai and was like, "damn, I really like that movie?"
positive · AI labelView post →Is there a very problematic White Savior movie that you can't help but love? For me, it's THE LAST SAMURAI.
positive · AI labelView post →The Last Samurai really does have an incredible soundtrack every other feeling about that movie aside
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished watching “The Last Samurai” for the first time in years and god I love that ridiculous ass movie!
positive · AI labelView post →I’m overlooking the Uruti Valley in Taranaki, NZ, the primary filming location for The Last Samurai. To capture 1870s Japan, film crews built an entire functional village here, complete with hand-crafted cherry blossoms.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Last Samurai (2003) Although only based on some historical events, with fictitious characters, I still love this movie. The samurai face off in their final showdown against a changing Japan now changing war strategy with the use of guns. 3.5/5 ⭐ #filmsky #moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →In Māori legend, Taranaki was once in the middle of the North Island with the other volcanoes but was banished to the west coast after a battle with Tongariro. It also stood in for Mount Fuji in the movie The Last Samurai.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE LAST SAMURAI (2003) ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ: ᴇᴅᴡᴀʀᴅ ᴢᴡɪᴄᴋ #film #movies #cinema #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite things! ✨️Anime: Inuyasha 🎮Game: Chrono Trigger 📖Book: One Thousand and One Nights 🎧Band: Falcom Sound Team jdk 🎵Song: Back That Azz Up by Juvenile 📽Favorite movie: The Last Samurai 🎬Favorite TV show: Criminal Minds 🎨Favorite Color: Purple 🦖Favorite Dinosaur: Triceratops
positive · AI labelView post →From the 1980 original to ‘Last Samurai’ to now, Hollywood is getting better at depicting Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/03/09/tv-streaming/shogun-hiroyuki-sanada-last-samurai/ #culture #tvstreaming #shogun #jamesclavell #thelastsamurai #hiroyukisanada
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