No matter how many times I’ve seen this. Mr. Watanabe’s “You have your honor again, Let me die with mine”…. Always hits me hard 😢. As men all we want is to live an honorable life ❤️
No one truly respects Japanese culture. Seriously a Shame.😔 Damn and those years. WORST ENEMY ARE THE YEARS AND EMPIRES RISING AND FALLING. SERIOUSLY SAD. I wish we can travel back in time.
To this day, there’s only two best supporting actor snubs that I still cannot understand. The first is Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone, the second is Ken Watanabe as Katsumoto in The Last Samurai.
"Hey I had some notes on this script... do you know what a wolverine is?" "Yeah it's just like a cool name for a wolf right?" "No it's a totally different animal, basically a big badger, not really anything like a wolf" "I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that"
0.13 I'm feel the pain, the sadness, and the guilt of the Japanese captain. He understands and respects the Samurai in life and death all the way to the end.
Though he now understands and loves the Samurais way, he still tries to stay Katsumotos hand because he doesn't want to lose his friend. Truly heartbreaking
It was the end of the era and the beginning towards a unified, imperial Japan. The reason why US was interested in propping Japan instead of occupying it despite that it could have at this time was because Japan was going to be a pawn of US interests in Asia and it tried a different approach instead of the typical Western Imperial approach. However, Japan left untouched by the Western imperialists due to their fascination with Japanese war culture before 19th century or that they knew that occupation and colonizing Japan would have been a heavy price for the colonialists.
I honestly think the betrayal of the samurai by its own government is why they are cursed still today ti be the pawn of others God forgive the samurai let them rest in peace
