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Title: Last Samurai
Condition: New
Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Koyuki, Ken Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada.

AMAZON REVIEW
The Last Samurai gives epic sweep to an intimate story of cultures at a crossroads as Japan undergoes tumultuous transition to a more Westernised society in 1876-77. In America, tormented Civil War veteran Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is coerced by a mercenary officer (Tony Goldwyn) to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of modern weaponry. Opposing this "progress" is a rebellion of samurai warriors, holding fast to their traditions of honour despite strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader (Ken Watanabe), Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the Samurai code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put everyone's honour to the ultimate test. All of which makes director Edward Zwick's noble epic eminently worthwhile, even if its Hollywood trappings (including an all-too-conventional ending) prevent it from being the masterpiece that Zwick and screenwriter John Logan clearly wanted it to be. Instead, The Last Samurai is an elegant mainstream adventure, impressive in all aspects of its production. It may not engage the emotions as effectively as Logan's script for Gladiator, but like Cruise's character, it finds its own quality of honour. --Jeff Shannon
Format: Blu-ray
Type: Blu-ray
Release Date: 07/02/2007
Studio: Warner Home Video
Region Code: Blu-ray: Region Free
Actor: Billy Connolly, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ken Watanabe, Koyuki, Masato Harada, Seizo Fukumoto, Shichinosuke Nakamura, Shin Koyamada, Shun Sagata, Timothy Spall, Tom Cruise, Tony Goldwyn
Certificate: BBFC 15
Subtitle Language: Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, de, en, es, fr, it, nl
Director: Edward Zwick
Genre: Drama
No Of Discs: 1
EAN: 7321900108096
Language: English
Run Time: 2 hours and 34 minutes
Country/Region of Manufacture: Portugal
Release Year: 2007

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