The Last Samurai

[HEIJO SHIN]

I loved this film, I have been awaiting its release for over 12 months and now seeing it, I have not been disappointed. It will be one I buy on dvd as soon as its released.

However I would like to know from the more knowledgeable amoung you, were the sword fight scene realistic (did you think TC pulled it off) and were there any (known) real sword masters in the film.

HEIJO SHIN

[Ren Blade]

I asked my friend who used to train Kendo what he thought of the swordplay in Last Samurai. He was very pleased with it. He said it was definitely not Kendo, but more like Kenjutsu. He thought everyone handled the Katana fine in the movie.

I'm gonna watch the movie again with another friend who trained Kendo heavily what he thinks.

It's a nice film. Even if Tom Cruise wasn't in the movie, the movie would've still been great. Tom definitely doesn't make the movie. It's of no indifference if he was in it or not in it. But for mainstream American audience to watch this film, Tom in a way does help the advertisement and sell the film.

[Hitokiri]

As far as I know (and I'm still a newb to kendo) the swordplay was well done, except for Tom Cruises American-Ninja-Style like performance :rambo: , but as for Ujio or Katsumoto I think it's pretty realistic and authentic. Anyways, you can't really compare it to kendo, because kendo was developed after ~1880 (the time the film is set)! There are of course quite a few similarities (huh, spelling :confused: :D ) to today's kendo but I've read that the swordplay in the film is rather based on kenjutsu, aikido and other japanese martial arts!

saraba

[Raiza]

The Last Samurai thread is alive and well and easily located in the Media section. Go here (http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/showthread.php?t=631) and save some bandwidth.

Please do some searching before you start a thread.

[HEIJO SHIN]

Raiza' please, have a little more patience and respect, two other people answered the thread, so I cant be the only one to miss it elsewere. Apology's to all.

Did you see the film? Did you like it?

[Raiza]

Raiza' please, have a little more patience and respect, two other people answered the thread, so I cant be the only one to miss it elsewere.

The two other people are brand new to the forum, just like you.

Something I've seen a lot of lately is people starting threads because they can't be bothered to use our archives. It shows disrespect to the people who regularly frequent these boards as it implies that the 30,000 posts already are of no use to the new arrival. Not exactly the best way to introduce yourself! At the time of me creating this post, you have made 10 posts on this board, 5 of them new threads. I have a "three strike rule". If you create three threads of which content can be found in the archives within a one week period, you get a warning from me. Curiously, some people get a big kick seeing their sigs under the thread they've started and that's their overall reason for starting a thread, regardless of what information is already there.

When you see it happen once or twice, it's nowhere near as annoying as seeing it for the fifty-third time. And for the record, I have created 189 posts and started a grand total of six threads. I joined this board on August 2002. In every instance of thread creation I have searched the archives to determine if there was a relevant thread I could use instead.

I'm going to post in The Last Samurai thread in the Media section if you want to see my opinion of the movie.

[HEIJO SHIN]

Or It could be we ARE bothered, but as you say NEW.

Its no so easy to find you way around the site especialy if you are new to site's, as I am. Once again I apologise.

And yes, I have stared several threads, but then again I thought this was the idea of the site, to get like mined people talking to each other, and asking questions, maybe just now I have a little more to say then you do, that could be about being new to the sport.

I just thought the whole ethos of the sport was respect, benevolence and being generous to each other. I'm sorry if I offended you, but your initial reply seemed curt and a little off hand.