The Last Samurai (Blu-ray) PG-13
In the face of an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior.
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Also released as:
The Last Samurai (Blu-ray)
for $15.30
Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 7, 2013
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Cruise | |
Performer: | Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada & Masato Harada | |
Directed by | Edward Zwick | |
Edited by | Steven Rosenblum & Victor Du Bois | |
Screenwriting by | Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick & John Logan | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Scott Kroopf, Tom Engelman & Ted Field | |
Director of Photography: | John Toll | |
Executive Production by | Richard Solomon, Vincent Ward & Charles Mulvehill |
Entertainment Reviews:
One of the best films of 2003.
Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Competently mounted in its studiedly immersive, elongated way, Zwick's earnest costume epic dresses a knee-jerk, reactionary sensibility in exotic garb.
Full Review
Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
Outstanding action and performance; lots of blood.
Full Review
Common Sense Media
Mostly, though, The Last Samurai aims for, and achieves, epic sweep: the glory of tradition-bound warriors hurling themselves against the modern world, the grandeur of Hollywood offering two points of view on everything.
Full Review
The Nation
Rating: B- --
More than anything else, "The Last Samurai" is the current Tom Cruise vehicle, and the actor's capacity to wrestle the story to his own demands is an impressive testament to his multifaceted perfectionist skills.
Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
The Last Samurai is an idyll in which the savageries of existence are transcended by spiritual devotion. That's a beautiful dream, and it gives the film a deep pleasingness, but the fullness of life and its blackest ambiguities are sacrificed.
New York Magazine/Vulture
THE LAST SAMURAI affords the sort of fizzy enjoyment that can come with epic movie endeavors, including a meticulously detailed world unlike our own, an excellent supporting cast and some pulse-pounding fights.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Edward Zwick directs this sumptuously designed, action-packed period epic that stars Tom Cruise as Captain Nathan Algren. Algren, a former Civil War hero, is adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the war, a lost soul struggling to stay afloat in a booze-soaked stupor. When he is recruited by the Japanese government to train the Emperor's army, he departs for the unknown shores of Japan and begins training the soldiers in American military tactics. But these skills are useless against a band of samurai rebels led by the proud warrior Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), and Algren is easily defeated. He is taken to a remote samurai village where he learns samurai warrior codes and ways of life, developing a deep bond with Katsumoto and sharing philosophical conversations with him. Caught between the feudal culture of the ancient samurai warriors and the encroachment of modern society, Algren is forced to choose between his own culture or Katsumoto's. THE LAST SAMURAI is lavish in its dramatic period costumes and intense performances, and will thrill fans of both historical drama and action films.
Keywords:
Action
|
Adventure
|
Civil War
|
War
|
Heroes
|
Epic
|
Period Piece
|
Samurai
|
Historical
|
Theatrical Release
|
Violence
|
Japan
|
Ancient Civilizations
|
Soldiers
|
Battles