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The Last Samurai Full Movie In Hindi 720p Download-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r21h8 -----------------------------------------An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.In Japan, Civil War veteran Captain Nathan Algren trains the Emperor's troops to use modern weapons as they prepare to defeat the last of the country's samurais. But Algren's passion is swayed when he is captured by the samurai and learns about their traditions and code of honor.The power of stardom! A civil war in 1870s Japan is not, one can safely assume, a likely subject for a major Hollywood epic. The part played by Tom Cruise in a civil war in 1870s Japan? Now that's a different matter.
Cruise plays Nathan Algren, a veteran of the Civil War and Indian Wars, who has become a cynical, disillusioned alcoholic after his part in the massacre of a peaceful American Indian village. He accepts an offer from the Japanese government to train the new Japanese army in the arts of modern warfare, and becomes embroiled in a civil war fought between that army and a rebel force led by the samurai warrior Katsumoto. Although the rebels are only armed with swords and bows, they are at first more than able to hold their own against the poorly trained, inexperienced government conscripts, and in the first battle Algren is taken prisoner. He is held captive in Katsumoto's remote native village, and gradually comes to admire the samurai and their traditional way of life. So much so, in fact, that he commits himself to their cause and fights alongside them against his former comrades.
There are many good things about this film. The set-piece battle sequences are well done and much of the film is shot against spectacularly beautiful scenery (actually in New Zealand rather than Japan; after its performances here and in the `Lord of the Rings' trilogy, the New Zealand landscape deserves a special Oscar for `best newcomer'). Although Cruise tends to over-act, there are some very good acting performances, particularly from the Japanese members of the cast. Ken Watanabe brings both intelligence and dignity to his portrayal of Katsumoto, and Koyuki is luminously beautiful as Taka, the young woman whose husband is killed by Algren in battle but who later falls platonically in love with him.
The film does, however, suffer from one fatal flaw. Unless it has an overt anti-war message, a war film needs to gain the sympathies of the audience for one side or their cause. Edward Zwick clearly understood this when making his earlier excellent war films `Glory' and `Courage Under Fire', but seems to have forgotten it since. Although `The Last Samurai' obviously invites its audience to sympathise with Katsumoto and Algren, it never gives them any real reason to do so. In reality, of course, the samurai who rebelled against the Japanese government did so because they were a ruling feudal aristocracy who feared that any change in the social order would endanger their power, wealth and prestige. No such base motives, however, are ascribed to Katsumoto; instead, he seems to be motivated by a preference for the old over the modern (traditional Japanese crafts are much in evidence in his village) and a distaste for recent innovations such as railways and Western dress. (He takes his medievalism to such an extent that he even forbids his followers to use guns, although firearms had been part of the Japanese soldier's equipment ever since they were introduced by Europeans in the sixteenth century). A British parallel might be if William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement had spearheaded an armed insurrection against Gladstone's government with a view to undoing the Industrial Revolution.
Indeed, the impression is given at times that Katsumoto is simply a rebel without a cause. Those who see death in battle as the highest honour (as he does) do not need a cause in order to fight. Much is made of the rebels' (and Algren's) sense of `honour', but no attempt is made to analyse the moral complexities of this particular concept, which can be used as the basis of an alternative morality in opposition to more orthodox ideas of right and wrong. Just as the gentlemen of eighteenth century England saw nothing wrong in fighting duels over points of honour, despite the fact that duelling was both illegal and contrary to Christian teaching, so Katsumoto uses honour to justify his bellicose lifestyle in defiance of both the laws of his country and the ideals of the Buddhist faith he nominally follows.
No doubt Katsumoto's rebellion makes sense in the context of his particular cultural background, and Algren's decision to support him makes sense in the context of his particular psychology; he hopes to atone for his crimes in the Indian wars by fighting alongside the underdogs in another war. Those of us, however, who are neither Japanese samurai nor conscience-stricken war criminals (and I suspect we will make up the majority of the audience) will have little sympathy with the rebels. My own sympathies were with the poor bloody infantry, the government conscripts killed because they stood in the way of Katsumoto's vision of Japan as a medieval theme park, and even with the leader of the government forces, the politician Omura. Although he is portrayed as corrupt and incompetent, Omura represents, however imperfectly, the nobler vision many Japanese of the period had for their country as a peaceful, prosperous constitutional monarchy.
There is a chilling ending to the film. The Emperor Meiji, hitherto portrayed as weak and indecisive, announces that in future Japan will combine Western innovations with traditional samurai values. The filmmakers present this as a posthumous triumph for Katsumoto's spirit; they seem quite unaware that it was precisely this combination of modern technology with an archaic warrior code that was to lead Japan over the next few decades to become an aggressive menace to its neighbours. Despite some good qualities, this is a historically dubious and morally flawed film which at times comes close to justifying war for war's sake. 5/10I thought the plot line and story was an excellent one, much in line with Shogun, Dances with Wolves and other movies where a lost soul finds truth in who he is through another culture. Where this movie falls short for me is in the acting of Tom Cruise. I have no personal beef with Cruise as I think he has had several good movies that suit his acting style. Mission Impossible and MI2, Top Gun, Risky Business, just to name a few. I personally don't believe he is a great drama actor. He simply does not pull it off as his dramatic range is more believable when it involves a character with a huge ego such as in Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men, or The Color of Money. I think a better choice of actor for the role of Nathan Algren would have been Christian Bale. This critical role needed a highly physical actor, capable of performing highly technical martial arts skills, with a tremendous dramatic range. Without this, the movie falls well short of its potential.Zwick can’t find anything fresh in this deeply pious East-meets-West stuff. The movie comes close to dying between battle scenes. [8 December 2003, p. 139]Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a disillusioned American war hero who fought alongside General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, is hired to train the Emperor of Japan's troops to use firearms against an uprising of Imperial warriors led by the "last samurai" leader Katsumoto Morito (Ken Watanabe). After being captured, nursed back to health, and trained to fight like a samurai, Algren must decide just whose side he is on. The Last Samurai is based on a screenplay by American screenwriter John Logan, filmmaker Edward Zwick (who also directed and co-produced the movie), and co-producer Marshall Herskovitz. The film was inspired by an earlier film, also titled The Last Samurai (1988) (1991), although the stories are not related to each other. The movie begins in 1876 and spans one year of time. Although no attempt at historical accuracy is made, the story was inspired by several real events. The basic story, that of a samurai rebellion against the Imperial Japanese government, was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion during which samurai in the Satsuma domain in Tokugawa Japan revolted against the new Meiji government. Algren's involvement was inspired by stories of Jules Brunet, a French army captain who fought alongside the Tokugawas in the earlier Boshin War [1868-1869]. Katsumoto spared Algren partly because of his fighting skill but also because he had seen in a vision the crouching tiger that Algren displayed on the banner hanging from his spear. Sake or saké (pronounced "sah-key") is a type of rice-based alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin. Sometimes referred to as "rice wine", sake is actually brewed more like a beer and has a higher alcohol content (like from 18% to 20%) than mirin (sweet rice wine). Traditional sake is served at a temperature of 98.4°F. Capt. Algren was a veteran of the US Army's famed 7th Cavalry during both the civil war (1861-1865) and the Indian wars in the western territories after the war. As an experienced cavalry officer, he was proficient with using firearms and sabers while mounted on horseback though did not take part in the infamous Battle of The Little Bighorn of 4 July 1876 due to his assignment to train the emperor's army in Japan in 1876. Therefore, having been invited by the emperor to Japan basically kept Algren out of the battle, saving his life so to speak. Although firearms had been in use centuries earlier in Japan, they were later rejected as dishonorable. By the early 19th century, the gunsmith's art had fallen into disuse. However, both sides did use firearms in the Boshin War and the Satsuma Rebellion. There are no accounts of ninjas being used by the Meiji government during the Satsuma Rebellion. In fact, it is highly unlikely if they even existed by 1877. The last known use of ninjas in warfare was during the Shimabara Rebellion [1637-1638] during the Edo period, which was 240 years before the Satsuma Rebellion took place. The samurai do well in the first round of the battle but, when the second and third regiments come, they are no match for the Gatling guns. The entire Samurai army is destroyed. Mortally wounded, Katsumoto asks Algren to help him die with honor, so Algren assists him with performing seppuku. At the death of Katsumoto, the entire Imperial army fall to their knees and bow before the fallen samurai. Only Algren survives. Later, as the Emperor (Shichinosuke Nakamura) is about to sign the treaty between the Americans and the Japanese, a badly-injured Algren appears before the court and offers Katsumoto's sword to the Emperor in hopes that he will remember all that his ancestors have done. The Emperor accepts the sword and rules that this treaty is not in the best interest of his people. When Omura (Masato Harada) protests, the Emperor informs him that he has decided to confiscate Omura's family's assets and make of them a gift to the people. He offers Katsuomoto's sword to Omura should he not be able to live with the disgrace, but Omura bows and backs away. The final scenes show Algren returning to Katsumoto's village and to Taka (Koyuki) and her sons. In a voiceover, Simon Graham (Timothy Spall) says: And so the days of the samurai had ended. Nations, like men, it is sometimes said, have their own destiny. As to the American captain, no one knows what became of him. Some say he died of his wounds, others that he returned to his own country, but I like to think he may have, at least, found some small measure of peace that we all seek and few of us ever find. Although he's been taught some Samurai swordplay, Algren is not Samurai. There is some confusion among viewers because of the fact that the word "samurai" is both a singular word and a plural word. In the singular, samurai can refer to a specific individual, as "Katsumoto is a Samurai." In the plural, samurai can refer to Samurai warriors in the collective, as "Katsumoto is Samurai" or "Katsumoto's Samurai." Therefore, it can be argued that the "Last Samurai" can refer either to Katsumoto himself, to his Samurai army, or to the last of the real Japanese Samurai. In the bonus section on the DVD, the director explains that the title refers to the Samurai as a race or class of people. The whole movie, in fact, is based on the end of the Samurai culture and the emergence of a new way of life in Japan, based on western ideals. The Last Samurai is often compared to Dances with Wolves (1990) (1990) and A Man Called Horse (1970) (1970) for the storyline, although both of these two movies deal with Native American Indians, not Japanese samurai. If it's similar samurai movies you want, try the TV miniseries Shogun (1980) (1980) or Akira Kurosawa's Shichinin no samurai (1954) (Seven Samurai) (1954). The classic epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (1962) is another film with a story about East meeting West, a westerner bonding with a group of "natives" that he joins up with, and is critical of westernization becoming intrusive to foreign societies/cultures. a5c7b9f00b https://www.causes.com/posts/4953988 https://www.causes.com/posts/4953985 https://www.causes.com/posts/4953983 https://www.causes.com/posts/4953974 https://www.causes.com/posts/4953966 https://www.causes.com/posts/4953984 http://ashbyfamilyny.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lo-mejor-de-lo-peor-in-hindi-movie-download http://www.nookl.com/article/333078/operation-dance-sensation-720p http://ethcomtio.yolasite.com/resources/Episode-1236-full-movie-in-hindi-free-download-hd-720p.pdf http://tribunal.guildwork.com/forum/threads/5ba0eff0002aa82e15ab54ac-chura-liyaa-hai-tumne-full-movie-download-1080p-hd
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