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    Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the government attempts to eradicate the ancient Samurai warrior class in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly affected by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
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  • @kyledunn6853
    @kyledunn6853 Рік тому +936

    I love how the samurai used the fog to conceal their movement and outflank them. This is my favorite samurai film. A true piece of art by Edward Zwik.

    • @Oropher420
      @Oropher420 Рік тому +30

      It might’ve also been used to give themselves the illusion of having a bigger army than theirs, giving them a more intimidating presence to the enemy.

    • @multivitamin425
      @multivitamin425 Рік тому +15

      Outflank? They literally charged head on

    • @kyledunn6853
      @kyledunn6853 Рік тому +13

      @@multivitamin425
      I was talking about their infantry, not their cavalry.

    • @multivitamin425
      @multivitamin425 Рік тому +2

      @@kyledunn6853 what

    • @brettgordon78
      @brettgordon78 Рік тому +6

      Can tell you were never military or know what you're talking about. Because the samurai obviously didnt flank them. This was clearly a frontal assault. Not a flank attack.

  • @IrishTechnicalThinker
    @IrishTechnicalThinker Рік тому +624

    Love how the Samurai leader sees the lonely soldier fighting, like he looking at a perfect blossom tree that's out of place or some rare animal in the wild being surrounded by hunters.

    • @danielbadger2641
      @danielbadger2641 11 місяців тому +99

      It’s a reference to the beginning of the film. The leader has a premonition in his mind about the white tiger fighting (in the beginning it’s a literal tiger). Hence the tiger flag and the low growl you hear when they zoom in on it during the battle. Cruise’s character is the white tiger

    • @jro7095
      @jro7095 2 місяці тому

      Un animal acorralado es capaz de todo.

    • @user-io6pj8bz8h
      @user-io6pj8bz8h Місяць тому +3

      No, it's his dream

    • @BurntBattleBagel
      @BurntBattleBagel Місяць тому +8

      ​@@user-io6pj8bz8hyou're both right. But the first and 2nd shot of the leader looking at him is the part where he is impressed or shocked at his tenacity... the 3 and 4th shot of his face (just before it's in slow motion with tom cruise) is where katsumoto then realises why he is so tenacious as his vision is confirmed by the flag. He probably may not have kept him alive if he didnt notice the flag.

    • @user-io6pj8bz8h
      @user-io6pj8bz8h Місяць тому

      @@BurntBattleBagel No, I am right, the op and you are wrong.

  • @SciModeler
    @SciModeler Рік тому +413

    The scene when the samurais appeared like ghosts in their battle armor is my fav scene in this film. It was so badass!

    • @jackdaone6469
      @jackdaone6469 4 місяці тому +8

      Japan’s feudal ghosts, returned to haunt the modernizing nation.

    • @Angelo-yr1en
      @Angelo-yr1en Місяць тому

      They were fearless warriors

  • @raymondyee2008
    @raymondyee2008 Рік тому +311

    This scene was done well. At 0:30 you would certainly feel fear coming right at you.

    • @LoneWolf-zh1iy
      @LoneWolf-zh1iy Місяць тому +1

      Not fear, death.

    • @BurntBattleBagel
      @BurntBattleBagel Місяць тому +3

      ​@@LoneWolf-zh1iyI'll meet you both in the middle: the fear of death

    • @LoneWolf-zh1iy
      @LoneWolf-zh1iy Місяць тому +1

      @@BurntBattleBagel Looking forward to it.

  • @brandoncarlson03
    @brandoncarlson03 9 місяців тому +229

    the fact that he let Nathan kill one of his men, solely because "it was a good death" tells you all you need to know about Samurai.

    • @APersonOnYouTubeX
      @APersonOnYouTubeX 8 місяців тому +23

      Too Honor bound
      Heading towards extinction

    • @brandoncarlson03
      @brandoncarlson03 7 місяців тому +2

      this.@@APersonOnUA-camX

    • @tomtom34b
      @tomtom34b 4 місяці тому +4

      I think he had a fair chance... 🙂

    • @MyJuan232
      @MyJuan232 3 місяці тому +10

      His brother in law.

    • @sword-and-shield
      @sword-and-shield Місяць тому +9

      More about that vision and the White Tiger than anything. He knew something was more important then his death, or he wouldn't have stopped his men.

  • @The_Gallowglass
    @The_Gallowglass Місяць тому +31

    Katsumoto: Stop.
    Samurai: What?
    Katsumoto: He just killed like a dozen trained samurai. I have to talk to him.

    • @halleck3
      @halleck3 Місяць тому +2

      That's the enemy he wanted to know :)

    • @lobby-3alliance196
      @lobby-3alliance196 27 днів тому +1

      Remember Algren, was a Captain in the Infantry, and he was battle_experienced, just a different type of warfare here !

    • @selerim
      @selerim 25 днів тому +2

      He was battle experienced already that’s why he took them on single handling. His combat experience is what ‘saved’ him in this battle.

  • @gunnerpfuntner842
    @gunnerpfuntner842 7 місяців тому +148

    I have always admired how the samurai dress in a fashion that strikes fear in there enemy’s, resembling demons on the battle field

    • @coltkeenan5854
      @coltkeenan5854 6 місяців тому +17

      If an enemy fears you, you have already beaten him

    • @flatearthisahoax4030
      @flatearthisahoax4030 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@coltkeenan5854
      But what if the enemy shows no fear even in the face of death? Like you don't care whether you live or die as long as you have nothing to lose?

    • @zerosoldier2k6
      @zerosoldier2k6 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@flatearthisahoax4030 it would be a worthy opponent for a demon. Idk an actual answer to this, but this is my opinion if I encounter a warrior who does not fear death as a samurai.

    • @taktktk5240
      @taktktk5240 18 днів тому

      15歳くらいの少年も顔晒す事になるから。そもそも鉄砲使うけどね

    • @krieger8825
      @krieger8825 3 дні тому

      ​@@flatearthisahoax4030An unbroken infantry unit is a spiky wall with legs

  • @dY5FUNCT10N4L
    @dY5FUNCT10N4L Рік тому +349

    My grandfather was in this battle in the 1800's, he said it was important for people on the internet to talk crap about where relatives served in combat

    • @HollywoodMarine0351
      @HollywoodMarine0351 Рік тому +11

      LOL 🍻🤪

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 Рік тому +16

      you'd be an centenarian old enough to even grasp the concept of the internet lmao 🍻

    • @inquisitorkrieger8171
      @inquisitorkrieger8171 Рік тому +13

      Hahahahaha. I see that all the time. Someone make this man a Samurai.

    • @Oblioebel
      @Oblioebel Рік тому

      the fuck he was

    • @Lil-yo-beach
      @Lil-yo-beach 11 місяців тому +2

      それじゃあ天皇側についた州と侍側についた州を言えるかね?

  • @shinsenshogun900
    @shinsenshogun900 Рік тому +169

    Tom Cruise's finest role... preferred this over the recent Mission Impossibles

    • @filipesugden1982
      @filipesugden1982 11 місяців тому +9

      masterpiece and greastest actor of this generation

    • @megusta9045
      @megusta9045 10 місяців тому +9

      ​@@fudgepacker2858not even close

    • @johnnieboy66
      @johnnieboy66 6 місяців тому +4

      Id say Collateral

    • @stonecold5373
      @stonecold5373 2 місяці тому +1

      Tom Cruise has all kinds of FINEST roles....

    • @tamikofox-lunn3591
      @tamikofox-lunn3591 2 місяці тому +3

      Less Grossman and Vincent

  • @Vekren
    @Vekren 8 місяців тому +147

    So terrifying for the unprepared defending soldiers, imagine being one of them and seeing that emerge from the fog especially since hearing about how legendary Samurai are/were. This is the legit one of the few Tom Cruise movies I can watch again and again.

    • @fistinyourface7053
      @fistinyourface7053 2 місяці тому

      Also one has to remember that the samurai were an elite not so long before action of the movie, before a peasant could get beheaded on spot for things like bowing not deep enough. And it was normal for them for generations. And suddenly these guys get rifles and are supposed to fight people who were training how to fight and kill for their entire lives.

    • @7swordquanta459
      @7swordquanta459 2 місяці тому +2

      Algren (Tom Cruise) was definitely right when he said the men were not ready in a previous scene.

    • @iatsd
      @iatsd Місяць тому

      That makes little sense. "how legendary the samurai were"? Algren knew close to nothing about them and the Japanese soldiers would have grown up knowing exactly who and what samurai were. In the actual Samurai Rebellion the newly trained Western-style Japanese military beat the rebelling samurai in *every* battle except one.

    • @lobby-3alliance196
      @lobby-3alliance196 27 днів тому

      @@7swordquanta459.Totally overmatched !

    • @Lorrdd
      @Lorrdd 5 днів тому

      In the Samurai's minds, they were the defenders, not the Imperial Army.

  • @rogermoreno1152
    @rogermoreno1152 Місяць тому +12

    “What happened to the warriors at the Battle of Thermopylae?
    …dead to the last man.” *grins*
    LOVED that scene.

  • @davidsears6312
    @davidsears6312 Рік тому +220

    Although the movie is not historically accurate, it's still a great movie.

    • @xyPERSON
      @xyPERSON Рік тому +7

      Awe yes David... a Hollywood film that is historically and factually inaccurate. Who knew? I do think it was a pretty good film from an entertainment standpoint but looking back it definitely whitewashed history like many Hollywood films unfortunately do. The late Paul Mooney once made a joke on Dave Chapelle's comedy show about Tom Cruise being the last samurai and he compared it to if Tom Hanks was to star in a film called The Last Nigga On Earth.

    • @TheBlackHawkOfGaming
      @TheBlackHawkOfGaming Рік тому +40

      @@xyPERSON this movie is not a white wash of history. Compared to the movies like dances with wolves or even Avatar. This movie just shows the period of time through the eyes of Tom cruise whose character is helpless in changing the events. He is not a white saviour nor does his character show, a white superior complex. With his reasons for joining the samurai justified as he found something lost in himself within the culture the of the samurai.

    • @LetsGoFlyers2011
      @LetsGoFlyers2011 7 місяців тому +19

      @@xyPERSON Except Tom Cruise isn't the last Samurai, or Samurai at all. The Samurai are the last Samurai.

    • @GP.Records
      @GP.Records 6 місяців тому +10

      @@LetsGoFlyers2011right. The Last Samurai is Katsumoto. We’re just witnessing his last days from Tom’s POV.

    • @fromryuk7785
      @fromryuk7785 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@GP.RecordsToms characters point of view as told by Mr Graham. At the end Capt Algerin before the final battle gave Mr Graham all his writings and journals from his time in Japan and his time among the Native Americans to help Mr Graham finish his own book he talked about at the beginning of the movie.

  • @waynee5603
    @waynee5603 Рік тому +81

    3:13, Katsumoto looks absolutely BAD ASS.

    • @bravosix8166
      @bravosix8166 Місяць тому +2

      I know right, his leader attire is super bad ass. And second that is Ujio's horned helmet. Ultimate badass

    • @LockdLoaded619
      @LockdLoaded619 Місяць тому

      Hitoro looks better.

  • @bigrobnz
    @bigrobnz Місяць тому +9

    that scene of the samurai attacking through the mist is one of the best pieces of cinema ever filmed......

  • @EvgeneXI
    @EvgeneXI 7 місяців тому +68

    True warriors respect each other, regardless of which side they fight upon.

    • @thomasmartin7524
      @thomasmartin7524 5 місяців тому +2

      in your games.
      only in your little games.

    • @EvgeneXI
      @EvgeneXI 5 місяців тому

      The fuck are you on about? And why do the folks that post stupid comments, such as yours, always have a username with this exact format: FIrstnamelastname0000.
      Are you bots? Are you creatively devoid? Does mommy not let you use your own UA-cam account?

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 4 місяці тому +4

      @@thomasmartin7524There’s about a zillion real-life examples of “game recognizes game”

    • @hawkeye7527
      @hawkeye7527 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@thomasmartin7524 Your comment assumes very much, based on very little. I have spoken with and known true modern warriors. There is respect due to your enemy. Fools are they who fail to respect their enemy, and who underestimate them.

    • @vik24oct1991
      @vik24oct1991 Місяць тому +1

      only in movies.

  • @hickoryhippie
    @hickoryhippie 3 місяці тому +21

    I thought the Japanese people would roll their eyes at the thought of a white man being the hero of a Japanese war, but it is one of the most successful movies to be released in Japan.
    Truly a work of art, and that's pretty rare to achieve in the 21st century. I love this damn movie.

    • @GaijinCartoonist
      @GaijinCartoonist Місяць тому +17

      Ah, but that's the secret. He isn't the hero, he's the witness. He doesn't save Katsumoto, he helps his men save him. He doesn't change their warfare, he integrates with it. He doesn't save the army, he willingly fights to the end with it. Algren isn't the Last Samurai, he helps the Last Samurai die as a Samurai.

    • @LockdLoaded619
      @LockdLoaded619 Місяць тому +2

      Even if he was the white savior, Japanese people would still love this movie. East Asians get their knickers in a tie for Caucasian people. And I'm not being racist. I'm being honest.

    • @Bajtjr
      @Bajtjr Місяць тому +5

      Of course the movie exaggerated the white man role a lot to bring it closer to Western audiences but despite this being a Japanese war the white man did play a part in it. There were Europeans fighting with the Samurai as well, for example:
      -Jules Brunet, a Frenchman. He was a French military officer who served the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War in Japan. Originally sent to Japan as an artillery instructor with the French military mission of 1867, he refused to leave the country after the shōgun was defeated, and played a leading role in the separatist Republic of Ezo and its fight against forces of the Meiji Restoration. After the rebellion's defeat he returned to France, fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and later reached the rank of general of division and worked for the Ministry of War.
      -André Cazeneuve which is the Jule's friend. Cazeneuve fought in the Battle of Hakodate, in command one of the four Shogunate regiments. He was severely wounded in the battle, but was brought back to Yokohama at the end of the conflict and transported to France.
      He returned to Japan in 1871, where the new Meiji government employed him to supervise their military horse usage. He died in 1874 in Japan.
      These are two examples but of course these white men were not any savior or heroes, they fought no harder than the Japanese and were not the "heroes" of the war. The movie is indeed a work of art

    • @tojiroh
      @tojiroh Місяць тому +2

      ​@@Bajtjrfascinating, must read more on those two men. It's a good day when a kind stranger shares a nice tid it on a comment section... Thank you!

    • @ramirowendler
      @ramirowendler 27 днів тому +2

      ​@@GaijinCartoonistif it wasn't because of Nathan the emperor wouldn't change his mind

  • @Excalibur01
    @Excalibur01 Рік тому +64

    2:38 The man should be VERY lucky that the horse didn't crush his leg coming down or landed on him, breaking his back

  • @jeremymerrifield7244
    @jeremymerrifield7244 5 днів тому +1

    The best Comedian in history firing a Winchester

  • @Lockieez
    @Lockieez Місяць тому +4

    I like how the soldiers close to Billy Connelly's character don't flee like the others. Shows the value of a leader raising morale of the troops by standing his ground himself.

    • @FranklinSninsky
      @FranklinSninsky 6 днів тому

      I noticed this detail as well not until I watched it on dvd, didn't notice this the first time, however small of a part he had i nthe movie Billy Connelly is legendary and also memorable in every role he's in especially this one...

  • @jakeb3055
    @jakeb3055 6 місяців тому +13

    The samurai leader sees the American fighting ferociously and when the blue banner with the tiger is visible, he recognizes that he is a tiger in spirit, a true warrior.

  • @user-gu9mf6kz8b
    @user-gu9mf6kz8b Місяць тому +4

    Edward Zwick understood the assignment. The fog was the doorway of legends marching into the real world and Samurais are legendary.

  • @kparsa1
    @kparsa1 Місяць тому +2

    Love the fact that he took out multiple opponent's with inferior training from the perspective of the samurai. They realized that with proper planning they could defeat the samurai. He earned the respect of most of them immediately.

  • @Excalibur01
    @Excalibur01 Рік тому +59

    One thing I raised about this movie is how utterly misunderstood the American Colonel thought of the Samurai. He literally thought they were facing "Indians" on another part of the world instead, it could have been easily explained that "no, they are no savages with bows and arrows and wearing loin cloths. They are like the Knights of Europe wearing plate armor with swords and pikes. These are men they didn't live in tents in the wilderness. They are men who lived in castles and know what siege warfare is like" THAT would at least raise the level of expectation that of what they were facing.
    The Japanese Imperial Army could have easily explained to the Americans the tactics of cavalry charges the Samurai would use, which is pretty much EXACTLY the same type of tactics the US military at the time would still use even post Civil War, flank a position with horses and plow through them with swords.

    • @jamalwilburn228
      @jamalwilburn228 Рік тому +8

      The movie is fiction anyway. The Samurai were known to embrace firearms and were among the first to adapt them. The Colonel is somewhat realistic as rac*sm was common, and you can find leaders underestimating opponents throughout history. Colonel could've been one of those officers who were appointed and had no military education like many during the Civil War. Back then, you could purchase a commission.

    • @jamalwilburn228
      @jamalwilburn228 Рік тому +2

      He wouldn't listen to the IJA as they sucked so it could be reasonably assumed they were overflowing their enemies' skills, which happens quite often. If you suck or your enemy sucks to the point, it's shameful. People will sing praise about their enemy to excuse their poor performance or make themselves seem superior

    • @Excalibur01
      @Excalibur01 Рік тому +2

      @@jamalwilburn228 I know the background of the movie and I still like it despite its faults. It's one of my favorite "western" take on Samurai, be it a bit romanticized. It is hilarious that they made the movie "good guy" Samurai scoff at guns when they've always used guns from the moment they were introduced. Would have been cool to see them using matchlock vs "modern" guns of the time

    • @koreancowboy42
      @koreancowboy42 Рік тому +2

      It is indeed true the samurai did use firearms however I very much liked this version of them not using guns as it showed that some of them didn't wanted to be westernized.
      However it would've been still nice to see some muskets like how back in the old days the Portugese came to trade the firearms to the Japanese

    • @_Since-1994
      @_Since-1994 7 місяців тому

      Lol Indians at that time are savage.... he'll noooo dude what you smoking Indian continent at that time are under British rule and before that they are rich and powerful then any other empire that's what make europeans to search the country and randomly discover other continents dude have some knowledge 😅

  • @longbeforenow3130
    @longbeforenow3130 Місяць тому +8

    Notice when katsumodo walks near tom cruise his hatamoto to his right blocks his other retainers with his sword as they have their weapons drawn near their lord.

  • @predetor911
    @predetor911 6 місяців тому +31

    Perfect example of how a weapon doesn’t make the warrior. Just because the conscript soldiers had more advanced weapons they lack the courage, focus and discipline, unlike the battle hardened samurai.

    • @SilverScribe85
      @SilverScribe85 6 місяців тому

      Tell that to all the gun lovers here in the U.S. this past year

    • @Jupiter.141
      @Jupiter.141 6 місяців тому

      Not just that it's also the language barrier they only had 1 officer translating for the entire regiment. If they were able to communicate properly the first line of the cavalry would've been decimated by the first volley.

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 3 місяці тому

      @@SilverScribe85 Different time difference in gap of technology.

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 3 місяці тому

      ⁠@@Jupiter.141 Wouldn’t matter much because someone they fired first without order.
      The other follow even their own officer who is a Japanese tell them to stop. But it too late.

    • @SilverScribe85
      @SilverScribe85 3 місяці тому

      @@thanhhoangnguyen4754 All I'm saying is the moment guns were created, it made us humans foolishly believe we're powerful

  • @timpope1745
    @timpope1745 25 днів тому +2

    If youve never had a chance to watch this movie, and you appriciate great scriped, and great acting do yourself a favor,watch this materpiece uncut,unedited, this movie will touch you,move you and make you sit bach and really consider what life is about.

  • @legiovictrix5118
    @legiovictrix5118 Рік тому +83

    1:13
    OUR MEN ARE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD!
    A SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!!!

    • @ronal8824
      @ronal8824 Рік тому +13

      more like "your men are routing, sir!"

    • @HallingtonA
      @HallingtonA 2 місяці тому +5

      “Dang this weather sir”

    • @Aka-293
      @Aka-293 28 днів тому

      love the Shogun 2 total war reference

    • @tiphares2355
      @tiphares2355 14 днів тому

      shameful dispray

  • @darwill7834
    @darwill7834 Місяць тому +2

    Best tom cruise movie by a country mile and imo one of best ever made from the acting to fight scenes and the beautiful soundtrack 👌

  • @kokutai3331
    @kokutai3331 10 місяців тому +12

    And that’s why we don’t use Levy Infantry in Total War

  • @ArchonShon
    @ArchonShon 4 місяці тому +7

    I love this scene, it shows how the route was the most deadly moment in battle. With cavalry many battles ended in slaughter only when fear became contagious.

  • @ryanchin2223
    @ryanchin2223 Місяць тому +6

    Nathan Algren masters his Awareness against so many Samurai Warriors…

  • @George-xb5ey
    @George-xb5ey 2 місяці тому +2

    Tom does his own stunts he took that sword slash like a true professional

  • @savagelifestylenetworkbts
    @savagelifestylenetworkbts 4 місяці тому +3

    Yujio's battlecry at the beginning followed by the rest of them was epic

    • @LockdLoaded619
      @LockdLoaded619 Місяць тому +1

      He always roused their passions. At the village when he does it again, and also in the final battle. Ujio was the MVP of this movie.

    • @savagelifestylenetworkbts
      @savagelifestylenetworkbts Місяць тому

      @@LockdLoaded619 hell yeah he was! Him and the Katie's son! One of my favorites of all time!

  • @RetroRob420
    @RetroRob420 6 місяців тому +8

    Love Hans Zimmer's score here. Works so well with the scene. A Way of Life one of my favorites of Zimmers'.

  • @amare1cro
    @amare1cro Рік тому +106

    Captain Algren clearly wanted to die here, and his sergeant witnessed his heroic last stand. What an absolutely fantastic movie.
    The tactics that Katsumoto applies in this battle seem disastrous, a cavalry charge onto straight lines of infantry equipped with modern firearms with bayonets fixed? But soon you realize that he gambled correctly on the Emperor's forces melting away out of fear and intimidation, and also he sent out his infantry on a flank attack, which meant that the cavalry charge was both used as a main attack and also diversion for the powerful blows at Algren's flanks.
    The Emperor's force was this clearly outmatched but a year later they would show up in force, unafraid of going head-to-head with the enemy, with powerful artillery, and finally, a Gatling gun to finish off the final charge of the samurai.

    • @marcodraven9778
      @marcodraven9778 Рік тому +10

      Reminds me of the battle of Lake Trasimene, Hannibal used the fog and lake to ambush the Romans to defeat. Katsumoto like Hannibal are rare commanders that use the environment as their advantage when it comes to guerilla warfare.

    • @jedcollings3624
      @jedcollings3624 8 місяців тому

      They were muzzle loading rifles with minie ball variants, probably Enfield 1853s, not modern compared to Billy Connolly's Winchester or even Captain Algren's colt percussion revolver in some aspects. Pikemen were used to engage forces at such distances in the past, I'm not too sure what ended the pikemen, probably just the bayonet and cost savings as models were standardized I guess

    • @amare1cro
      @amare1cro 8 місяців тому +3

      @@jedcollings3624 pikemen were ended because no sane person would march into war with a pike while each of your enemies can easily pick you off at distance... while also having a bayonet. imagine slowly advancing, unable to fire back, while musket or minie balls are slamming into your ranks.
      The pikes were ended already in the 18th century, but somewhere it took some time to remove them from the battlefields.
      Realistically, I wouldn't even want to be wielding a pike in the era of longbow + first primitive firearms (14th, 15th century)
      The samurai were fighting a hopeless battle in this movie

    • @thebladeofchaos
      @thebladeofchaos 8 місяців тому +1

      @@amare1crothis is a bit of a falsehood. Pikes carried on into the age of shot for a while until we got to the point Muskets could do the job on it's own. there's a reason Pike and Shot is a thing after all.
      some of the first bayonets we used were plug ons. you could get them in but good luck getting them out in time for the fight. It wasn't until we actually started getting socket bayonets and indeed ring bayonets that we started properly phasing them out, but overtime, we moved the ratio more and more as weapons became more and more advanced. remember, 3 shots in a minute with a Napoloeonic rifle was seen as highly impressive. in a minute how far can a horse go? how far can you shoot?
      The Samurai were on the way out, there was no question with this, but not because of their lack of firearms alone. tactics advance and adapt over time and the tactics the samurai used initially worked wonders against their foes who were ill prepared for it. but knowledge, experience and development showed that it was just a matter of time. we see the same in WW2. the Germans learnt the lessons of WW1, the Allies didn't.

    • @ianover6838
      @ianover6838 8 місяців тому +1

      @@amare1cro Pikes were still needed to counter cavalry

  • @marcodraven9778
    @marcodraven9778 Рік тому +50

    Reminds me of the battle of Lake Trasimene, Hannibal used the fog and lake to ambush the Romans to defeat. Katsumoto like Hannibal are rare commanders that use the environment as their advantage when it comes to guerilla warfare.

    • @kodesh1674
      @kodesh1674 9 місяців тому +1

      He did that? I thought he only fought at Cannae

    • @herbthompson8937
      @herbthompson8937 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@kodesh1674Lake Trasimene is known as the largest ambush in history. And Hannibal has like 20 other battles as well besides those 2. You only know about Cannae because you're not a history buff and because Cannae is still taught to military academies around the world to this day. Hannibal IMO is GOAT

    • @flatearthisahoax4030
      @flatearthisahoax4030 3 місяці тому

      Napoleon also did that on the Battle of Austerlitz where he trapped the Austrians uphill while his army were hiding in the fog ready to fight

    • @nekrataali
      @nekrataali 2 місяці тому +1

      @@kodesh1674 Hannibal waged war on the Romans in their own peninsula for 15 years.

  • @ghostwolf5432
    @ghostwolf5432 Рік тому +17

    I really love this movie because of the history and the action of it

  • @ianlacey6588
    @ianlacey6588 Рік тому +30

    It’s the same trick that they used in the Michael Fassbender version of Macbeth. You set up the smoke machine then have 5 or 6 people run in and out of shot. Looks like armies.

    • @guts-141
      @guts-141 10 місяців тому +1

      Fog of war

  • @hardy2051
    @hardy2051 5 місяців тому +9

    Samurai has one of if not the best looking medieval or whatever era armor!

    • @cheerful_crop_circle
      @cheerful_crop_circle 3 місяці тому +1

      What about ronin , shogun, shokun?

    • @billlam7756
      @billlam7756 2 місяці тому +1

      That's racist! African leather armor is the shit armed with a wooden shield and bone spear!

    • @moredistractions
      @moredistractions Місяць тому

      They were still wearing it in battle as late as the 1870s.

  • @NomadUrpagi
    @NomadUrpagi 3 місяці тому +2

    This movie left a good impact on me that i still draw inspiration from it from time to time.

  • @jasonsphinx8461
    @jasonsphinx8461 7 місяців тому +7

    Sun Tzu said, "Do Not Play With Tigers."

  • @Matterian
    @Matterian 28 днів тому +2

    Such a great movie. Now I want to go watch it again.

  • @robertodibaggio8181
    @robertodibaggio8181 Місяць тому +1

    Awesome Film.. one of my All time favorites.. great story, characters,. obvious impressive fight scenes and greatest Love scene ever with Taka and Algren as she helps him prepare to go into battle for possibly the last time, brilliant scene, no words need be spoken just those 2 together.

  • @alexbenoitb2371
    @alexbenoitb2371 Місяць тому +2

    765 / 5 000
    Captain Jules Brunet is one of the fifteen officers responsible for training the Shogun's army in modern warfare techniques. But Brunet was immediately fascinated by the ancestral world of the samurai. He learned Japanese and became close to the Shogun. Unfortunately, his samurai troops were eliminated by British cannons, placed in the service of the Imperials.
    Thus, the shogunate was abolished on April 11, 1868. But Brunet decided to stay in Japan and continue the resistance against the Emperor for another year. Back in France, he distinguished himself again during the war against the Prussians in 1870. He ended up as a major general and commander of the Legion of Honor. So the last of the samurai was a very little Frenchman!

  • @fredbloggs5902
    @fredbloggs5902 Рік тому +19

    One of Tom’s best.

  • @Jason-er1vf
    @Jason-er1vf Рік тому +24

    Honestly the only thing that was really inaccurate about the movie is that the samurai were more than willing to use guns and cannons during the real rebellion.

  • @YAOZII
    @YAOZII 7 місяців тому +7

    The saber cut through Samurai’s armor like it was nothing😂

    • @arethmaran1279
      @arethmaran1279 5 місяців тому +4

      At a full gallop, most armor can be split by a sharp, heavy blade like a saber.

    • @TheNerdForAllSeasons
      @TheNerdForAllSeasons 4 місяці тому +1

      I don't think it was actually cutting through, but riding into a steel bar at 25+ MPH is probably gonna knock you backwards if not unhorse you completely.
      He's probably just focused on deflecting each attack as it comes and then getting some kind of counter before the next guy comes at him.

    • @JackMeoff46
      @JackMeoff46 3 місяці тому +4

      Samurai armor was just leather covered in a layer of steel and lacquered. Not particularly strong against anything other than slicing attacks.

    • @24X7CARZ
      @24X7CARZ Місяць тому +1

      @@JackMeoff46- The type of armor plating shown in that scene would’ve been metal.

    • @doublep1980
      @doublep1980 Місяць тому +3

      Samurai armor was nearly as thick as European plate armor and cavalry sabers where made out of better steel than any Katana ( because Japanese iron ore is really low quality) and were sharp af.
      Also, Tom Cruise´s character is a trained cavalry officer who fought in the US Civil War & the "Indian Wars" against the the Sioux & Comanches, according to the movie.
      He´s by far the most battle hardened and experienced warrior on the field.
      The Samurai of that era, had not seen any proper "action" for centuries.
      Realistically speaking, a regiment of properly trained/ experienced & armed US or European cavalry, would have made short work of the Samurai.

  • @NPC_maga
    @NPC_maga 7 днів тому

    I enjoy how Tom Cruise beat the piss out of multiple samurai in this fight, but then can't hold his own in a simple 1-on-1 against Sanada's character literally less than 10 irl minutes later.

  • @pepperachu
    @pepperachu 7 місяців тому +4

    Though Nathan was an alcoholic he had faced Apaches and strong spirit warriors and was the only one who respected his opponents. He would go on to be the only one that lived and would be redeemed from his alcoholism, shame and guilt

  • @sonyaboy7164
    @sonyaboy7164 5 місяців тому +1

    one of my favorite scenes...

  • @albertonicastro9380
    @albertonicastro9380 Місяць тому +1

    This movie is on my top five of all times.

    • @justvid366
      @justvid366 Місяць тому

      What are the other 4?

  • @KevinKim122
    @KevinKim122 2 місяці тому +1

    This scene indicates the importance of keeping line up and listening command order in battle.

  • @patricktalbot8980
    @patricktalbot8980 28 днів тому +1

    I love how in this scene he could take on 5 samurai but 2 scenes later the samurai easily beat him with a stick

  • @uncledutch1431
    @uncledutch1431 11 місяців тому +11

    Am i the only one that thinks cruise got knocked out when he and the horse got hit? You can see it for a split second at 2:40, looks like his lights went out.

    • @cx5870
      @cx5870 5 місяців тому

      Haha

    • @bravosix8166
      @bravosix8166 Місяць тому

      Just noticed it was Ujio who did it

  • @saintroddy
    @saintroddy Місяць тому

    It's both insanely plot armor-y and deeply impressive seeing Algren annihilating armored knights left and right with nothing but a cavalry saber.

  • @JonBlockCreations
    @JonBlockCreations 2 місяці тому +2

    If Ed Zwick had not also directed the masterpiece Glory, which also featured a Civil War era forest battle, it would be easier to love this scene.
    As such, it feels a bit too Hollywood.
    First, Cruise himself - while capable of great acting - is just too modern and cool to really pull off period era.
    And the fact that Cruise kills several samurai before getting spared and captured is not a function of reality, so much as necessity of plot.
    It’s a bit contrived. Which this whole movie, while having its positive traits, feels that way overall.
    Again, if it were not for Mr. Zwick’s masterpiece Glory setting such a high bar, this one would be much easier to love.

  • @Gear2716074
    @Gear2716074 22 години тому

    Love this powerful scene.

  • @neofulcrum5013
    @neofulcrum5013 Рік тому +4

    This was a good scene

  • @grenadiermike394
    @grenadiermike394 3 дні тому +1

    This is what you get for spamming levy infantry in your Fall of the Samurai campaign
    You get destroyed in melee by samurai
    "Our men are running from the battlefield, A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!"

  • @anam.caballerowilson9421
    @anam.caballerowilson9421 9 місяців тому +2

    Love the film the best of Tom Cruise

  • @user-qq8te9ni9l
    @user-qq8te9ni9l 14 днів тому

    The samurai are so menacing as they come out of the fog in slow mo.

  • @sicariomegrella516
    @sicariomegrella516 10 місяців тому +3

    This is what will happened to your Hand Cannoneer and Janissaries when being swarmed by Paladins in AOE

  • @kuroroluxifer8321
    @kuroroluxifer8321 17 днів тому

    btw at this point in the story Nathan was a alcohol addict who hadn't been in active combat for quite some time..he still got 2 guys with his revolver ( probably more, that weren't shown), 5 with the cavalry saber, 1 with the bayonet, 2 with the spear.
    gottaa be quite the badass to kill 10 samurai even tho you're an alcoholic and out of shape.

  • @bernotheinferno8157
    @bernotheinferno8157 4 місяці тому

    Perfect soundtrack

  • @OddNess9339
    @OddNess9339 3 місяці тому

    I love this movie despite its historical inaccuracies. For instance, the Japanese military was not incompetent like we see them here, in fact by the time this fight would have taken place the Japanese military was more like they were depicted in the end of the movie. In fact the character Katsumoto was inspired by rarely if ever won a battle against the more modern Japanese military. This movie is more about the dramatization and story, the emotion rather than it being an accurate depiction of the waning days of Samurai culture against the rapid modernization Japan was going through.

  • @jacksontaylor290
    @jacksontaylor290 5 місяців тому +3

    Dang I just realized that the guy who killed the Irish homie was Taka’s husband. So Algren avenged his pal’s death!

  • @towdjumper5
    @towdjumper5 Місяць тому

    Great stuff

  • @methos-ey9nf
    @methos-ey9nf Місяць тому +1

    Watching Shogun, and after the finale airs I'm going to try and sit through Scorsese's "Silence" and then finish it off with this movie.

  • @napalmman8292
    @napalmman8292 Місяць тому

    That war cry, i would’ve shit myself right there.

  • @micahthezilla9432
    @micahthezilla9432 9 днів тому

    Let's not forget that irl, Saigo Takamori lost every battle with the Imperial Army.

  • @TheRampagingGallowglass75
    @TheRampagingGallowglass75 9 місяців тому +5

    As fearsome, fearless & badass as those attacking Samurai were two rows of highly trained, powerfully disciplined & formidable Scottish Highland infantrymen armed with those rifles, with bayonets attached, would have been capable of stopping then defeating that charge of galloping, inspired Samurai warriors (Scots Highland units were the best soldiers in the World back then, & remember that immortal ""Thin red line"" during the Crimean conflict!).
    With all due respect to the sheer awesome badassery of those die hard, by then anachronistic Samurai patriots.
    Great scene!

    • @Komnenos1234
      @Komnenos1234 8 місяців тому +1

      When I was a poor college student my job was as a re-enactor for the 78th Highlander Regiment. Those guys would fight and defeat anything and everything, including elephants.

  • @bull2012
    @bull2012 9 місяців тому

    ❤Splendido mette in risalto valori come amicizia e onore 😂ngrandissimo film

  • @JavaMoppel
    @JavaMoppel Місяць тому +1

    In the Napoleonic Wars, 60 years earlier in Europe, the infantry with muzzle-loaders were able to hold their own perfectly against the cavalry when lined up appropriately. But the prerequisite for this was good training and discipline. These poor soldiers had neither.

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 14 днів тому

      Well Nathan said they not ready. The moment they panicked and shoot without order is a their death.

  • @ericfaz1427
    @ericfaz1427 26 днів тому +1

    Captain Algren was right; these were not the soldiers of the Battle of Nagashino.

  • @Plasticsoul345
    @Plasticsoul345 Місяць тому +3

    日本には生えていない、自生していない植物ばかりでね、日本人としてはこのシーン見ただけで違和感だらけ
    トム・クルーズは大好きだけど

  • @Excalibur01
    @Excalibur01 Рік тому +12

    Awesome movie. For me, this beats Dances with Wolves on the basis that Tom Cruise is not "the white savior". I like this story better than Avatar because THAT movie is pretty much Dances with Wolves in space.

    • @DenKHK
      @DenKHK Рік тому +2

      I felt Avatar was just Pocahontas in space with a bit of search & replace done on the story ...

    • @Excalibur01
      @Excalibur01 Рік тому

      @@DenKHK dances with wolves

  • @heatherngo6375
    @heatherngo6375 9 місяців тому +1

    I like the Samarai weapons

  • @JeffBourke
    @JeffBourke Місяць тому

    looked absolutely terrifying for them!!!

  • @sugiantoharuka745
    @sugiantoharuka745 10 місяців тому +3

    Japan armor is the best 🇯🇵❤️

  • @savagelifestylenetworkbts
    @savagelifestylenetworkbts 4 місяці тому +2

    You can see Tom was ready to die here

  • @fredbloggs5902
    @fredbloggs5902 Рік тому +12

    Unfortunately, Hans Zimmer went on to reuse virtually the same music in multiple films which can snap you out of the film you’re watching at the time and back to this one.

  • @nicleslie9662
    @nicleslie9662 6 днів тому

    tom cruise got that plot armor

  • @benedictodunsky2790
    @benedictodunsky2790 Рік тому +1

    You finally uploaded a last samurai clip ?
    Geez
    Freaking based

  • @user-cx7wg9on5p
    @user-cx7wg9on5p 19 днів тому +1

    Мы являемся с люди Востока это уже пора принятт😊😊😊

  • @cyrahomega
    @cyrahomega 5 місяців тому

    Katsumoto was so prophetic

  • @user-lg3dl3sb6r
    @user-lg3dl3sb6r Місяць тому

    The rarest moment is that there’s only one person who respect the “1v1” and whoever wins in any way winss

  • @budda3258
    @budda3258 24 дні тому +1

    Браво!Самураи :Сила!Отвага!Честь!

  • @carlosalbertogis7194
    @carlosalbertogis7194 Місяць тому

    Cuando el cine de acción era de admirar!😮

  • @imperatorglaber1752
    @imperatorglaber1752 3 місяці тому +1

    Tom cruise best role

  • @khanhgiapham-mi4hg
    @khanhgiapham-mi4hg 10 місяців тому +4

    when noob team has few pro players and the pro players can't carry the match.

  • @AuomAk
    @AuomAk 10 місяців тому

    it's understandable that they were shaking, their culture and warfare just undergo a complete transformation. So everything was new to them.

  • @realitygaming4088
    @realitygaming4088 Місяць тому +1

    The bit when the leader comes in to save him, his guards direct there swords at the guys that where about to kill him the one on the right puts his blade infront to block 😅😅😅😅

  • @user-lg3dl3sb6r
    @user-lg3dl3sb6r 2 місяці тому +1

    Scorpion standing in the back😈

  • @princegodwinoguimas3071
    @princegodwinoguimas3071 6 місяців тому +2

    I wish the Samurai's won so they wouldn't go extinct.
    Except the Tokugawa Clan today

  • @kritingyt
    @kritingyt 19 днів тому

    Best scene

  • @luke88perry
    @luke88perry 4 місяці тому +6

    Tom Cruise truly was the last Samurai.

    • @JackMeoff46
      @JackMeoff46 3 місяці тому +1

      Bruh…

    • @doublep1980
      @doublep1980 Місяць тому +2

      Katsumoto is the last Samurai, that´s the whole frikin´point of the movie.
      With his death in the end, the age of the Samurai ends.
      Some people are just so daft, they need the movie to literally spill it out for them I guess.

    • @luke88perry
      @luke88perry Місяць тому +2

      Lol

    • @tresamigosflyfishing
      @tresamigosflyfishing Місяць тому +1

      Katsumoto is the last samurai

  • @Karam-tali
    @Karam-tali 5 місяців тому +1

    اين يوجد الفيلم كامل

  • @ranvabclc
    @ranvabclc Рік тому +1

    They are not ready.

  • @user-wn7yb7ee9p
    @user-wn7yb7ee9p 4 місяці тому +1

    Actually the Queen [Morinaga Naomi] sets Samurai Law
    to subdue criminals in Japan, hope you like it.

  • @michaelcapponi2
    @michaelcapponi2 Рік тому +2

    great movie, but just so unrealistic that this guy who just dishonourably stabbed katsumoto's life long village companion wouldn't have his vengeance immediately served by katsumoto. At least, he would be obviously much more distressed by the turn of events.

    • @sergioalmasy8722
      @sergioalmasy8722 Рік тому

      The guy was Katsumoto's brother-in-law.

    • @heiniknallkopp9688
      @heiniknallkopp9688 11 місяців тому +4

      Its just not important any more when Katsumoto realizes, that this lonlely Man, fighting off a bunch of Soldiers is the white Tiger from his premonition earlier in the Film. His brother-in-laws death wasnt pointless.