Samurai: The Way of the Warrior
The Way Of The Warrior
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives 
for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. (The Last Samurai, DVD chap 1).
These somewhat mystical and haunting opening lines set the atmosphere for Dir. Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai'.
The Last Samurai is a movie that demands our surrender " to its energy, to its bold-stroke moviemaking, to its acting (particularly by Cruise and Watanabe, who blend musing and graceful muscularity) and, above all, to its romantic vision of a lost world. You have to rationalize its commitment to the warrior values that, nostalgized and bastardized, would help make Japan such a cruel and dangerous player on the world stage less than a century later. But because the movie's business is to celebrate those values in uncorrupted form, viewers can probably silence such concerns. (Time Magazine Movie Review)
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives
These somewhat mystical and haunting opening lines set the atmosphere for Dir. Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai'.
The Last Samurai is a movie that demands our surrender " to its energy, to its bold-stroke moviemaking, to its acting (particularly by Cruise and Watanabe, who blend musing and graceful muscularity) and, above all, to its romantic vision of a lost world. You have to rationalize its commitment to the warrior values that, nostalgized and bastardized, would help make Japan such a cruel and dangerous player on the world stage less than a century later. But because the movie's business is to celebrate those values in uncorrupted form, viewers can probably silence such concerns. (Time Magazine Movie Review)