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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325710/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/last-samurai

An American captain, suffering from PTSD-induced nightmares so bad he became alcoholic, is brought back into the trade as a consultant and trainer to suppress the civil war in Japan and fight against its old warrior class, the samurai.

Dare I say this is one of the greats. It has various classic elements without being tiring and obvious, and maintains a great pace and tone.

• 2017-01-03

2017-01-03 ∞

• 0:30 — Japanese creation myth
• 2:30 — Oh my god, that’s Professor Jerry Hathaway, from Real Genius – (1985 movie), played by William Atherton.
• 4:15 — (sensible chuckle)
• 5:00 — Winchester rifle
• 8:00 — Katsumoto Morito is fictional.
• 10:15 — July 12th, 1876
• 18:15 — Scalping
• 34:30 — It’s unlikely the roof would leak like that.
• 40:30 — Judo
• 42:00 — Buddhist temple (Buddhism)
• 50:00 — Introduction of Bob.
• 1:14:00 — Bushido. See also Bushido – (1924 book), by Minoru Tanaka
• 1:14:30 — Aren’t they suppose to have been snowed-in?

• 1:19:45 — Howitzer

  • I don’t remember what the machine guns are called.
• 1:25:50 — That guy on the right doesn’t even look remotely Japanese..
• 1:38:00 — Do arrows strike with enough force to knock people around like that?
• 1:45:30 — Battle of Thermopylae
• 1:47:30 — The camera-panning really mucked up that dawn moment.
• 1:48:15 — Disrobing-porn.
• 1:53:30 — Going Native

• 2:10:30 — Wasn’t our hero shot in the leg? Nothing seems to have come of it. Even now he’s able to ride freely.

2005-07-08 ∞

2-Disc Widescreen Edition

• 30:20 — Whoa, that guy on the left just threw their standard to the side.

• 49:50 — First appearance of “Bob”. Possibly a tribute to Kevin Smith’s Clerks – (1994 movie) (etc) and “Silent Bob”.