The Last Samurai is...a white man.
What WERE THEY THINKING?
The Last Samurai is...a white man. What WERE THEY THINKING?
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Do Japanese people even like watanabe. He cheapens nip culture by acting as this cheap bridge btn the east and west. All his movies are cheap western views about what Japan is.
Yes https://youtu.be/TlW1tN34MZU
>Chris Broad
This gay lives in my city, he's been here for a decade and still doesn't speak good Japanese
He's no Shakespearean actor Hiroyuki Sanada, but he's still good.
this movie is popular in japan, they like tom cruise and that hollywood showcased some japanese culture (albeit acknowledging the goofy campy parts). However Ken Watanabe is just seen as too americanized
Who cares, Americans eat it up and it makes a lot of money.
He is a huge fan of the Hanshin Tigers which makes him mega based
>snowflake crying about the race of a movie character
Grow up
I guess the filmmakers thought that having a white protagonist would attract a broader audience rather than an uncivilized oriental one. The problem with having an Oriental actor in such a prominent role is that the movie wouldn't sell to middle-American viewers who wouldn't identify with an exotic Asian. The reason there are so few movies starring non-white actors is because there isn't enough profit potential for these movies. They might have been able to make a fortune on the domestic front if Tom Cruise was replaced by Ken Watanabe.
Bait thread for newfags. The last samurai were the chinks. Last as in plural, the last few samurai
The last jedi was a play on this
Uh, who asked?
>The last jedi was a play on this
Bravo, Rian, bravo... at last i truely see....
This was back when the west was majority white and the western film industry made films directed at that audience, like any other film industry would do in their part of the world.
I know this is hard for zoomies to understand, but not everything is heckin white supremacy.
he was jomon
He was a diversity hire
Seagal was robbed.
>Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it.
There's not a single person who disliked the film. Even people who are anal about Japanese history and can point out all the flaws still go "...but it was still a gret movie."
I love the movie personally, one of my favourites.
this is not even a Western view of Japan, but Hollywood one. If you have at least a superficial knowledge of Japanese history and culture, then the film becomes unwatchable.
I've never understood how Seagal become an Actor. He's not very good in any movie
He worked for the mob. The movies got made because the mafia financed him and took a lot of the profit.
>He's not very good in any movie
You’re right, he’s Great
>Let me tell you something that might be a bit dangerous. I was raised in Japan. I was schooled in martial arts. I was given the title of master. They take a movie “The Last Samurai.” They have a 5-foot-2-inch little guy, whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. I don’t care. He had never been to Japan. He doesn’t speak Japanese. He has never held a sword. They make him the Last Samurai. We got 450,000 phone calls [laughs] from everybody in the world saying, “That role was perfect for you. How did that happen?” Most of the people I know didn’t like the film and didn’t go see it. It’s just a classic example of Hollywood and the politics.
Jesus this makes Seagal seem like a massive bitch
This is what Steven Seagal looked like when last samurai was filmed
>whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know
wat lmao.
It's hard to believe we've come so far in so few short years...
Seagal is the personification of a small man beating his chest to sound important.
To hell with Hollywood and its politics.
Seagal is the last Samurai, in real life.
>I was raised in Japan.
In reality, Seagal moved to Japan when he was 20 years old, and lived there for 2-3 years.
I was in Japan for a month in 2015, I think that pretty much makes me a native.
He honestly sounds like trump
I didn't know who said this when I read it. Of fucking course it was Seagull
did trump copy seagals speaking mannerisms or was it visa versa?
>whether he was straight or gay, I don’t know. I don’t care.
Kek this gets me every time. Only reason I opened the thread, thank you, anon.
>hiding in the ditch
>”What happened to Spartans at your Thermopylae?”
>dead to the last man
>giant smile of approval
i was talking to a girl about this movie the other day…. weird
Weird that you were talking to a girl in the first place? Because this threads crops up a few times a week.
I'm tapping on your phone and thought it'd make a good thread when I heard you drone on about it. She's not into you, btw.
t. OP
>This is the half Japanese half British girl I was telling you about
They were thinking they would rip off James Clavell's Shogun and they were right. White men samurai are kino
I don't know what's worse, Last Samurai basically rewriting history OR Shogun completely replacing every historical japanese figure with a goofy named expy.
Shogun is similar to Braveheart in that if you ignore historical accuracy its a pretty kickass story
I've been struggling to read through the book and I really, really hate the constant cultural commentary of "you stupid Christian westerners do this, we based Degenerate japanese do this," especially coming from Mariko, who is a completely different person compared to her historical counterpart, Gracia. Gracia refused to commit seppuku because it was un-Christian, meanwhile Mariko keeps wanting to commit seppuku but she's under an order not to.
Hollywood sucks that way. As the Great Paul once said: The last moron on earth starring Tom Hanks.
The last samurai is plural and refers to the jap warriors, not to Cruise you retards.
Watanabe was the last Samurai you thick cunt.
more like the first weeaboo if you exclude Vincent Van Gogh
The women in Seagal movies are the only ones on Earth I feel pity for
this reminds me of that bruce lee movie when the girls shows her tits
i was a still a young kid and it did things to me although pretty squalid
its one of the 15 highest grossing films in japan or was before top gun maverick and they literally named a holiday after tom cruise
>leftist white cuckold think it was referring to just Cruise and not the group he was apart of
leftist whites can't wait to find something "racist" to bitch about
I got a movie for Hollywood to make, it's called "The last bro on Earth" starring Tom Hanks
It's based on Jules Brunet, a French military officer who let the Samurai forces during the Boshin war
ESL or simply unaware that Samurai is plural here?
why would that be ESL, Samurai is a japanese word and japanese words don't add the s for the plural
Are you stupid?
retard he's right, do you know what ESL means Rajeed?
"Samurai" is still used in the English language you retard.
Adding an 's' is just as retarded as saying "fishes" instead of "fish" which are common ESL mistakes.
"Fishes" is actually correct if you're referring to more than one kind of fish, it's called a double plural. I'm assuming you didn't learn that in public school so you're welcome for the lesson, you braindead imbecile.
That doesn't refute anything I said.
People who think the Japanese wouldn’t like this movie because it’s not “accurate” or whatever are retarded
Cowboy movies aren’t accurate either. Doesn’t mean Americans didn’t love them
>two tickets for the last samurai please
Gonna be a bummer when he realized she naturally has a round and unattractive face but covered it up with plastic surgery. He'll find out when they have mutant hapa kids with fat faces and grow up to shoot up a sorority house
kek, he's as insecure as her, he won't give a shit
well said gengoid bros
Tom cruise is certified HAIRKINO, amirite lads? I fuckin wish I could pull off long hair but I look like a retard
Long-haired Cruise was best Cruise.
Katsumoto was the last samurai, Cruise was merely a companion and witness to his final days.
A good The Last Samurai thread is a rare thing.
You could spend your whole day searching the catalog for one, and it would not be a wasted day.
If nothing else, the entire movie is a great argument for making European knight/battlefield stories have color again. Not a single dark filter anywhere, and anything that's faded looks fairly naturally so.