the Last Samurai ( The Last Samurai ) is an American film carried out by Edward Zwick, left in 2003.
Synopsis
The film takes as a starting point the rebellion of Satsuma in 1877, a rebellion of Samurai S directed by Takamori Saigō against the Japanese imperial army, and of the history of Jules Brunet, a French officer who resigned of the French Army to resist the emperor of the Japan.Nathan Algren, a veteran of the Indian wars, is engaged by the politician and adviser of the emperor, Omura. This one wishes to get rid of a former general of the Nipponese army, the legendary one will samurai Katsumoto, and engages Algren so that it involves the Japanese army. While they await the arrival of will samurai in a forest in Yoshino, will samurai them attack and massacre the Japanese conscripts. Algren is captured and taken along in the village of the son of Katsumoto, Nobutada, far in the mountains. Little by little, Algren learns how to know and include/understand the spirit of will samurai, and this antique wisdom which Katsumoto tries to preserve. It is at the sides of will samurai that it will take share at the end of the old order, guided by its direction of the honor.
Data sheet
- Title: the Last Samurai
- original Title: The Last Samurai
- Realization: Edward Zwick
- Scenario: John Logan, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz
- Production: Tom Cruise, Tom Engelman, Marshall Herskovitz, Scott Kroopf, Paula Wagner, Edward Zwick, Ted Field, Charles Mulvehill and Richard Solomon
- Production company: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: 100 million dollars
- Music: Hans Zimmer (additional: Geoff Zanelli, Blake Neely, Trevor Morris and Bart Hendrickson)
- Photography: John Toll
- Assembly: Victor Of Wood and Steven Rosenblum
- Decorations: Lilly Kilvert
- Costumes: Ngila Dickson
- Country of origin: the United States, New Zealand, Japan
- Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
- Kind: Venture, war
- Durée: 154 minutes
- Comings out date: November 22nd 2003 (first, Japan), December 5th 2003 (Canada, the United States), January 14th 2004 (Belgium, France)
Distribution
- Ken Watanabe : Katsumoto
- Tom Cruise: Nathan Algren
- Masato Harada : the industrialist and politicking Omura
- Shichinosuke Nakamura: Emperor Meiji
- Hiroyuki Sanada: Ujio
- Timothy Spall : Simon Graham
- Shin Koyamada: Nobutada
- Seizō Fukumoto : Quiet Samurai
- Koyuki: Taka
- Billy Connolly : Zebulon Glove
Rewards
- Nomination with the Oscars of the male best supporting role (Ken Watanabe), better artistic director and decorations (Lilly Kilvert and Gretchen Rau), better costumes (Ngila Dickson) and better sound (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler) in 2004.
- Nomination with the Golden Globes of the best actor in a feature-length film (Tom Cruise), male best supporting role in a feature-length film (Ken Watanabe) and better film original soundtrack in 2004.
- Nomination at the price of the best actor (Tom Cruise) at the time of the MTV Movie Awards 2004.
External bonds
- the Last Samurai on Internet Movie French-speaking Database
- Official site
- anglophone Official site
- Battle of Thermopyles
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