EMOTIONAL REACTIONS to THE LAST SAMURAI | First Time Watching!!
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This movie is a masterpiece.
28:41 "He is defeated! He must accept his shame!"
"Then why don't you cross the battlefield and tell him that to his face?"
Who are you quoting w/ that 2nd sentence?
@@jp3813 The second sentence consists of the answer that I would have given myself at that moment.
@@Proteus2905 got em
Some historical context.
For centuries Emperors ruled in Japan until the 12th century when two powerful men fought and one emerged victor calling himself Shogun or military leader of the nation.
The Emperors were so important to Japan, they were kept in place but until the 19th century their role would be more ornamental.
In the 15th Century Portuguese traders entered Japan bringing guns, alcohol and Christianity in no particular order.
After some time trading the shogun in power Tokugawa Ieyasu decided that such trade was not what he thought best for the country and ruled Japan would live in isolation.
In the 19th century an American Admiral (Perry) rode into Tokyo harbor and forced them open to trade with the west under threat of shelling the city. Japan received a rude awakening regarding the firepower and military advancements of the West.
Emperor Meiji pictured in this movie took power away from the samurai and placed it back in the hands of Emperors and did everything to modernize Japan.
This movie was obviously fictionalized, and fantastic.
Though I am sure there were some samurai in camp A who thought Meiji seizing power from the Sogun was the right and proper way things should be done, and surely some were like the Saito just wanting the Emperor to “not forget the past”. Common sense dictates that most were in camp B fighting for self preservation.
It’s barely mentioned in any kind of direct way, but the Emperor’s power and his desire to get rid of not only the Shogun, but also the samurai, must have been a great threat for…the samurai.
This is one of my all-time favorite films. It's in my top ten. It's very similar to one of the best shows on TV right now, Shōgun. I highly recommend it. Hiroyuki Sanada, the sword teacher in this movie (see 10:40), plays a lead role in the show.
Now would be a GREAT time to start watching Shōgun. It’s similar in some ways but a much more authentic representation of Japanese history and culture
Another favorite scene for me is the "No Mind" scene. when Nobutada teaches Nathan the most valuable lesson in real conflict.
Very underrated masterpiece I love this movie to me Tom Cruise best movie And the Samurai with horned helmet that was dueling with Tom is Hiroyuki Sanada he is a master swordsman and a great actor
Yeah I loved Samurai because they were similar to my Native American ancestors with the warrior society and that they wore their hair long and to cut it unless time of mourning was an insult
Boozhoo! Now I'm no expert so i could be wrong, but regarding hair length and cutting it, it depends on the period in Japan you're talking about. Although the warrior culture is most definitely similar in some ways which i think is pretty awesome. There was a period in Japan where it was mandatory for samurai to shave the top of their heads to show they were in fact a samurai and only the Ronin(samurai without masters) who would tend to wear it long and un-cut to differentiate between the two because both of them were great warriors. Also I'm not sure if every man was at a "warrior" level in throughout Japanese history, whereas in many indigenous nations every man was a warrior because we all hunted and participated in war when needed, similar to the Mongols who all hunted and participated in war. I don't know if in all periods of Japan every citizen could even hunt or if it was just a thing nobility or special people could do. But i do know what you're saying, we both have rich histories of great fearsome warriors and i think both our peoples can find that in common.
@@PunkNPettythat "style" is actually for a practical purpose.. It's only samurai that have that haircut. Wearing the helmet in summer in battle or ceremony can get pretty hot. So that's the reason.
@@ElijahBenjamin-ug6op both of us are correct. started out as practical purposes then became the status symbol.
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その通りです🎉
In my opinion this is his best movie
That he may have at last found some small measure of peace we all seek and few of us ever find.
This is such a fantastic movie. It is beautifully filmed, scored and choreographed. Tom Cruise at his best and everyone else was amazing in their roles. It's one I come back to quite often. Great reaction from all of you. I really enjoyed it.
Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins, Godzilla), Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine Endgame), , great actors! Also Sosuke Ikematsu (older boy Higen) is a lead actor now!
Agree! And, I also love Shin Koyamada, who I always call the japanese Legolas!
I recommend Tom Cruise again in A Few Good Men & Jack Reacher 1&2.
I hope you all find that small measure of peace but few of us ever find
15:06 Pick one: Father, husband, brother, son
This is the Manlienst scene
You should review the movie "Silence", which was also set in Japan but is 1000 more times more emotional and gut wrenching.
Why? Because the foreign powers were bullying Japan and the Jesuits were part of it? So they outlaw a religion that undermines their ways. Oh well. You get what you get after that.
great reaction 👏 - historically, the samurai in this chapter were viewed as the villains because the japanese government needed to modernize to catch up to the west and the samurai did not want change.
It’s a bit more complicated than that as even the Shogunate recognized changes were needed. Even during the Bosnian War, they all largely fought with modern firearms
@@dustf1nger118'Bosnian?' Am I an idiot for missing something here?
My Grand Mother about 50 years ago Traveled to Japan taking my female Cousins on Vacation.Being African Americans during a turbulent racial time in America.Asked a Local What do you call us?He stated Japanese!History and Worldly Culture is an eye opener for anyone!
So happy you reacted to my all time favorite movie.
I watching this movie in National TV when I teenager 2009
I think you'd REALLY like the FX show Shogun if you like this. Different era of Japanese history, different themes, but a similar premise.
The Last Samurai was such well done, beauriful and graceful film. Please react to THE MEMOIRES OF A GEISHA. Aloha from Hawaii.
I love Memoires of a Geisha- I even have a DVD of the film!
@@PamArtsValentine That film was just beautifully done, and the story was just epic.
@@SamoanObsidian Agree!
Finally :) A im Waiting for this reaction for long time. :)
See "Seven Samurai" and "Hari-kari* these are Film History wise the greatest Samurai films ever made #1 and #2.
i wonder if this last samurai trend has anything to do with Shogun being a massive success?
masterpiece
Great reaction. Now watch 10 episodes of Shōgun 😊
Fabulous reaction and commentary to this incredibly moving film. Thank you lovely ladies for sharing this. 🤗
I haven't watched any other reactions of yours so i don't know if this is an anomaly, but the lady on the far right needs to be further from the microphone. Her screaming every other minute was actually deafening. I appreciate she was getting into the movie but if that's a reoccurring thing then try and reposition the microphone a bit further away, or if you are using separate mics, turn hers down some in the mixing. It was either be deafened by her, or not be able to hear the lady on the left and middle... Outside of that, great vid!
It seemed like you kind of got it at the end, but I know that a lot of people miss this, so I figured I'd mention it. As Katsumoto was dying, he found the end of his poem. Now, traditional poetry in Japan usually comes in the form of haiku (I haven't done enough research to say it all comes in the form of haiku, so I'll leave it as mostly). If you'll remember the episode of Avatar; the Last Airbender, "Tales of Ba Sing Se," Sokka's storyline dealt with haiku. They are formed of phrases of 5 syllables, then 7 syllables, then 5 again. So, the phrase, "They are all perfect." Is the final 5 syllable line.
I suspect that there's probably a lot of nuance rules to haiku that I don't understand, things that pertain to how phrases sound or imagery they evoke, or even double meanings that can be taken from the same hiragana and kanji might be things true poetry masters have to consider. I haven't done nearly as much research into what makes not only a haiku, but a good haiku, to say. Which is a pity, because I am sure that for cultures as detail, order, and wordplay centric as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean culture are, I'm sure that there's a _lot_ of depth to explore there. But, yeah, in the simplest form, all you need to technically form a haiku are the correct syllable counts.
Now, on a different note, while the movie has some historical inaccuracies pertaining to Japan's history with firearms, as well as the innate inaccuracies that come from being a story about fictional characters based on a real world setting and period, it does paint a beautiful picture of Japan's history. So I'm just going to note a couple things. The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word "to serve." Japanese feudal society, from which the samurai clans were born, focused heavily on honor, loyalty, and order. The code samurai lived by was called "bushido," which is literally "bushi" which means "warrior," and "do," meaning "way."
Seppuku, the ritual slitting of the belly, was the ultimate way to restore your honor if it was lost. Often, it would be preformed with a second on hand to take your head, if you didn't die quickly when performing it, or if you physically lost the strength to continue the cuts once started.
I am going to end it here, because I kept trying to go off on tangents that would be better served being in a long-form paper, rather than as a RUclips comment, and I really don't want to do that.
This film is very loosely based on the story of Jules Brunet and the Samurai Saigō Takamori
Reaction prefect i like video👍
This movie is based on a true historical events. However, the film maker made some creative changes like the American Captain is really French. Research more if interested.
Not very accurately, I would say. This is the first movie where I've seen samurai say that it's dishonorable to use guns. When in reality the samurai DID use guns, and samurai armies would try to get their hands on as many guns as possible.
Tom's best movie in my opinion, right next to Top Gun Maverick!
This movie brings a tear to most mens eyes.
Saludos a mi suegra
18:43 topknot is symbol of honor for a Samurai. Cutting their hair means a disrespect to them.
After this you need to watch SHŌGUN . Please react to SHŌGUN❤
The Last Samurai" seems to be depicted in a strange way from a Japanese point of view and seems to be a mixture of various eras.
If that is the case, I think the recently aired "Shogun" is still a more accurate portrayal of Japan.
The period setting is several hundred years older than that of "The Last Samurai," so it may be quite different.
Any chance you will watch Shogun? lol
At first i was wondering why the reacrion had been edited so much, even some of key scenes were edited out, i figured for an over an hr reacrion video it wouldn't be edited as much, the movie finished at 34 mins so there was about 30 mins of the analysis, that's a lot, i know it's your channel n you can do as you please and all that but just saying, this is a fan favorite.
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Y'all left out some of the Very Best Parts of This Movie..... Like when Tom said "They've come to Destroy what I've come to Love" & when he had the Conversation w/ the Little Boy on the Porch!!!! UGH!!!!!
There is a massive moral difference between killing someone in war/battle and murderer's the bible says so! The Kane and able situation is an example of murder. David and Goliath was a battle of sorts.
Col. Bagley, "Just tell me one thing; what is it about your own people that you hate so much?"
well, there are a couple of older movies that answers that question, both having to do with the genocide of the Native Peoples of America:
Little Big Man (1970) with a young Dustin Hoffman, and
Dances With Wolves (1990) with Kevin Costner
why everyone starts take reaction video of last samurai recently?
Probably cause of FX's Shogun series
It is sad you upload such a short reaction.
What to always expect.....Storm has always seen bits and parts of the movie. Oh and have i ever seen a more disrespectful editing of this masterpiece of a movie. No..
what?
As you'll find on any reaction channel, editing has to be done in order to get the reaction up at all where you can see some of the film as they can't provide the entire film or it gets blocked. People that try to include as much as possible spend a lot of wasted effort repeatedly cutting and posting again and getting blocked again and again until finally you end up with something close to what you find here, perhaps a bit more of the film. It all depends on who's making the final say on the blockage. I imagine they are simply saving time and effort by doing enough heavy cuts so that you can see the reaction easily on RUclips. Get over it. It's not like they owe you anything.
Crap is not "Holy".
When I search for 300 or Top Gun: Maverick reactions on your channel, nothing shows up. Is this just clickbait? Not subscribing, sorry.
What compels a person to comment this absolute nonsense? If you don’t see what you’re looking for just move on
Here's a different view of Samurai culture - it wore modern clothes in the late 1800's and early 1900s, until 1945. Someone who was defeated was shamed - their life was forfeit. Japan started to invade China and Korea. It treated Koreans as virtual slaves until the end of WWII. The air of superiority of the Samurai, and the Japanese in general, resulted in the death of 20 million Chinese, and little discussed, 6 million Indonesians, who died from overwork and malnutrition and too many from simple starvation, brough on by the Japanese invaders/occupiers. That's what the Samurai culture brought to Asia. And the deaths of too many Americans in WWII, with Japanese soldiers bringing "death before dishonor" to Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Read about the Battle of Okinawa and see how you feel about the noble Samurai culture. It was a death cult, reinforced by an isolated, almost sociopathic, culture. Today, I respect the Japanese. Up until 1945, there were, influenced by the Samurai culture, too many Japanese who were cruel and barbaric. Read about how they treated the Koreans. Routinely horrible. Know your history....
I agree with you. Too many westerners believe in the "noble savage" myth. Native Americans were also cruel and barbaric, and they routinely massacred each other for thousands of years long before Europeans arrived. And yet Hollywood has been portraying Natives as if their lives were peaceful and lovely before the 'evil' Europeans ruined everything and 'stole' their land.
Hollywood applies this idea onto every story that involves Caucasians clashing with other races -- including this movie. Basically Western/European cultures = Bad. Non-Western, non-European cultures = Good.
Booo you cut all awesome Japanese scenes
Toms best performance...ya Goofy m8te from Australia
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