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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   1,890 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Yôji Yamada (screenplay) &
Yoshitaka Asama (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
30 October 2004 (Japan) more
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Plot:
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 13 nominations more
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The real last samurai. more (23 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Masatoshi Nagase ... Munezô Katagiri
Takako Matsu ... Kie
Hidetaka Yoshioka ... Samon Shimada
Yukiyoshi Ozawa ... Yaichirô Hazama
Tomoko Tabata ... Shino Katagiri
Chieko Baisho ... Mrs. Katagiri (as Chieko Baishô)
Kunie Tanaka ... Kanbê Katagiri
Toshiki Ayata
Hiroshi Kanbe
Sachiko Mitsumoto ... Mrs. Iseya
Reiko Takashima ... Hazama's Wife
Satoko Yamamura
Nana Saito ... Bun (as Nana Saitô)
Kazuhiko Kasai
Ryôta Satô
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Hidden Blade (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
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Rated R for some violent material.
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132 min
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Goofs:
Factual errors: When Hazama is shot by a rifleman, it blows his arm off. A rifle bullet, particularly one of that era, does not have enough power to cleanly sever a limb in the manner shown. more
Quotes:
[repeated line]
Kie: Is that what you command... sir?
Munezo Katagiri: Yes. That is my command.
Kie: If it's your command, then I have no choice but to obey.
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Follows Tasogare Seibei (2002) more

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21 out of 23 people found the following review useful.
The real last samurai., 10 May 2007
10/10
Author: (winner55) from United States

Fans of the common chambara (swordfigfht) film will be disappointed - this is not an action film. Tartan films is making a mistake by loading its marketing of this film in America with hints that it might be. In fact, this film probably could better distributed by Criterion, since it is the equal of any of the Japanese dramas it handles.

This is a real throwback to the grand tradition of Japanese film - Ozu, Kurosawa, Mizoguchi. Flawless cinematography, almost painful care for detail, strong back story, meditative commentary on political history, and a passionate cross-caste romance, much as that captured in the "Samurai" trilogy. Sensitive acting and elegant direction. a romantic soundtrack that never becomes overbearing. Really a film for the ages.

This is the film most people should be watching instead of the Tom Cruise farce "The Last Samurai". Indeed, sympathetic viewing of this film will at least make clear why many of us were outraged at the Cruise film - this has all the thoughtful reflection on the social tensions of that era that "The Last Samurai" lacked.

A fascinating demonstration that the Japanese well know their own history and need no reminders from Hollywood - and can depict that history with a sweep and vision easily as grand and as beautiful as anything Hollywood can produce.

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