Tom Cruise's 'The Last Samurai' (2003) streams on Prime Video, mixing emotional storytelling with historical themes. The film sees American Captain Nathan Algren embrace samurai culture but faces ...

The castle was besieged during the 1887 Satsuma Rebellion, on which the 2003 Hollywood movie The Last Samurai is very loosely based, and was defended for more than 50 days by a vastly outnumbered ...

The Imperial Omura (Masato Harada) cabinet's first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai, hereditary warriors, who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty, but reject the ...

Samurai movies have long fascinated film fans since the genre first emerged from Japan in the early '20s, and it's pretty ...

That's what I liked about it. Rating: 8/10 "The Last Samurai" (2003) All samurai carry katana. When going outside, they carry two swords. Inside rooms they would carry a short katana like the one ...

The fall of Nobunaga at the hands of a treacherous general resulted in the exile of the first black samurai, possibly back to a Jesuit mission in Kyoto. Though his fate and the last years of his ...